Hi Josef, On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:54:14 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:17:24AM +0200, DenverD wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
On 26/08/2010 18:59, Josef Wolf wrote:
What would be the correct md5sum? Why not run the DVD and select the option to test the DVD for errors? This will 'tell' you if the DVD is broken.
A bad md5sum might be an indication for compromised disk. Thus, I want to know what exactly is going on here.
You could duplicate the file (to another disk maybe) and then use rsync against one of the mirrors to repair it. After that (and when the hash of the second file proves to be fine), you could compare the files for differences (e.g. with cmp) or diff them blockwise. You may also want to try to reproduce the problem; maybe you can replicate it if you download the same way as before. There could be a bug in the download client or in a mirror, after all. If you'd know from which mirror you got the file that you have, it would be helpful in that case, of course.
but why waste the time burning a disk with a known wrong md5sum?
That'd be faster than discussing the toping on the list, I guess. But for the reason mentioned above, it might be better to check whether the image on the server is broken.
A very good plan.
i'm pretty sure the answer to his problems is to fetch a full and correct image...hints to do that are in one or more of these cites: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help http://tinyurl.com/yhf65pv http://tinyurl.com/ycly3eg
Reloading from the same URL will give me the same file because the proxy caches it. Anybody has a direct link?
download.opensuse.org has them all: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/iso/openSUSE-11.3-DVD-i586.is... Cf. also http://mirrors.opensuse.org/list/11.3.html Peter