Austin Isler wrote:
Did you try running the sha1sum program? if not, open a terminal, and (as root) cd to the file containing the .iso and the SHA1SUM file. execute the command: sha1sum -C SHA1SUM.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
After much churning you should get a return that DVD img is OK (and a bunch of errors for the files you don't have in your download) if the img fails, you must return to the BT (BTW did you use system-config-securitylevel to open up port 6881? that might be your problem with slow download speeds. You can check this with iptables -L).
As far as the disc you burned, did you use the media check option (this is not really valuable as many people get failures, and can install anyway, but you gotta check). Also Please look in the filesystem (computer icon select DVD-rw) Do you see anything at all? The proper DVD has 3 folders (Fedora, images, isolinux) and 14 files including autorun, eula.txt, release-notes etc.
If the iso is good, perhaps something went wrong with the burn. Did you ensure that the burn speed did not exceed the rating of the media? (discs come in 1x-16x).
That's all I can think of ATM, hope it helps
Scott
