On Monday November 20 2006 4:34 pm, Mike Coan wrote:
I downloaded the Opensuse 10.2 beta2 i386 DVD using ktorrent. Unfortunately, the md5sum of the downloaded iso image doesn't match the md5sum that is listed on the server. That would indicate the download was defective.
Given that the DVD download is 4 GB and the chunks of the file come from so many different computers, is the probability of the download being incorrect somewhat high? I suppose there is some error checking built in. Just wondering if people have been successful in downloading the beta2 dvd using a torrent client. Would a torrent client other ktorrent be more reliable?
Mike
Every chunk of a torrent is md5sum'd so in theory the complete download should have been md5sum'd constantly. And that goes for every seeder re-transmitting the chunks they have. One thing I'm not sure about is if the originating server has its file changed does that negate all the seeders that are no longer up-to-date? Could you have gotten chunks from different versions of the file? If the original file changes will the seeder's incorrect chunks be automatically replaced? I don't know but that could explain how your final *.iso's md5sum isn't correct. Someone around here will educate/correct me... Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org