On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:10, Austin Isler wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > >On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:48 -0700, Austin Isler wrote: > >>Hello guys and gals. > >>I was also one of the people who were experiencing slow downloads on BT, > >>but I stuck with it anyways. 3 days later and I have it. Now here is the > >>problem. Right away I noticed that the md5sum did not match the one in > >>the text file that came with the iso. I said "what the hell" and burned > >>it to DVD anyways. Now when I restarted my computer to allow it to boot > >>from the DVD, it acted like nothing was on the DVD and just when > >>straight to booting my HD. Also when the DVD is in the drive it gives me > >>error messages when its searching for volumes, and then when KDE boots, > >>the PC freezes. It all seems quite strange, after all I downloaded the > >>same iso as everyone else. > >> > >> > >>Austin > > > >the file has an sha1sum, not an md5sum. > >use sha1sum to verify the file. > > > >How did you burn it? A common mistake is to not burn the iso, but > >instead burn a CD/DVD that has the iso file on it. > > In k3b I used the option to burn DVD image (Tools -> DVD -> Burn DVD ISO > Image) > > > Austin Instead of using k3b try this command line: growisofs --dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdwriter=filename.iso Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,707 and counting
