On 5/24/2009 6:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote: >> If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt >> image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image >> and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)? >> >> I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website. >> >> John Aldrich wrote: >>> Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? >>> That's what it sounds like happened. > > 2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows > stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will > conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage > returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a > mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and > made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary > just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_. Been a while for you has it not? :-) Windows downloads files just like Linux. Has for many, many years. Did before too. It was normally PEBCAK that messed things up back then. > These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and > it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure > than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So, > check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you > downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to > burn the file using that file as an iso image. That can be done in Windows also. I you, the OP, care I will point you to the application locations. > If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of > the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing > a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you > burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem > that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the > contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should > do so automatically on the reboot. The OP is running Windows Gene. He needs answers that fits his current OS. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
