Re: bad md5sum for initrd in hd-media?

[David Emerson <dle3ab@angelbase.com>]

Almut wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:21:22PM -0700, David Emerson wrote:
> > I downloaded initrd.gz and vmlinuz from:
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/other/hd-media/2.6/
> > 
> > (I'm intending to install sarge from hard drive on a computer with a flaky cd-rom)
> > 
> > There are md5sums at
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/other/MD5SUMS
> > 
> > My vmlinuz md5 matches up, but the initrd.gz md5sum does not match. I re-downloaded with no change, still in disagreement the archive:
> > 
> > My md5sum:
> > ca838dff73b15963544ea21537ccaa8f  initrd.gz
> > 
> > archive md5sum:
> > 250db6ab320fc5edcecf3ed9d1c185a6  ./hd-media/2.6/initrd.gz
>
> How exactly did you download the file?  What seems to have happened is
> that the file got unzipped while downloading:
>
> $ ls -l initrd*
> -rw-r--r--    1 ab       ab       10645504 18. Nov 22:55 initrd
> -rw-r--r--    1 ab       ab        3205673 18. Nov 22:54 initrd.gz
>
> $ md5sum initrd*
> ca838dff73b15963544ea21537ccaa8f  initrd
> 250db6ab320fc5edcecf3ed9d1c185a6  initrd.gz
>
> ==> the md5sum of the uncompressed file is exactly what you have...
>
> IOW, you've already got the right file -- you just need to gzip it again :)
>
> Almut

You're absolutely right. I was using the Opera web browser to download the file, and for some reason it seems to want to decompress the .gz on download, and then save it with the .gz extension. Off I go to report a bug to the opera people...

I ought to have checked the file size after downloading

Thanks,
David