-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-05-04 at 08:39 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
I would like to install and help test Beta 2. Unfortunately, before I can install it I'm running into a few problems...
I downloaded the x86-64 DVD image via BitTorrent.
Problem 1: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0-Beta2/iso/torrent/ doesn't have an MD5SUMS or SHA1SUMS file, so I don't know if these files are downloaded correctly.
They are not needed. The .torrent file contain checksum information internally, so that when a chunk is downloaded incorrectly, it retries till it gets the chunk correct. That's why the .torrent file is big: it contains the checksums for all the chunks. Now, if KTorrent is unable to produce a perfect downloaded iso, and even more, unable to correct the possible errors, that's a bug of KTorrent. Don't use it. Use the plain "BitTorrent", for instance (btdownloadgui or btdownloadcurses), or probably azureus. I have sucesfully used btdownloadcurses to reconstruct bad downloads produced by KTorrent or ftp. Now, if after a download using a good client is finished, Yast says the image is wrong, that's a bug in yast. cer@nimrodel:~> btshowmetainfo openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386.torrent btshowmetainfo 20021207 - decode BitTorrent metainfo files metainfo file.: openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386.torrent info hash.....: 8ba2847cd9addc842af41eef355e224bd1ad808b directory name: openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386-iso files.........: openSUSE-11.0-Beta2-DVD-i386.iso (4582096896) archive size..: 4582096896 (17479 * 262144 + 81920) announce url..: http://tracker.opensuse.org:6969/announce - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIHgQKtTMYHG2NR9URApDgAJ0W0rg2mhOmltiqfYXu7vbjLbB1ggCdEgWW r0lJdvvpHHH6yUPEdT2f/DA= =wbx4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org