Re: Corrupt ISO downloads

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

What is the URL / path to the iso that you are downloading from that has 
this problem?

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Austin English wrote:

> That's what I thought, so yesterday I downloaded the iso on a completely different connection/computer and it still failed the checksum. Today, r2 failed the checksum, but is installing fine (just finished installing the kernel in fact). I didn't check to see if the checksums from yesterday's downloads were the same or not, but I'm inclined to think they were.
>
> Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote: Perhaps some kind of network/router issue then that is corrupting the
> packets?  Really strange problem there, what if you download to a
> different machine that is not on the same network/connection?
>
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Austin English wrote:
>
> > Doubtful. I tried again today, downloading r2 from two different servers on two different computers with clean ram. Both failed the checksum, but the installer seems to be happy this time, it hasn't quit yet (it is installing the base system from a mirror as of right now). Attached is the checksum I have for the iso's (both matched), which seems to be correct compared to the checksum on the debian servers.
> >
> > 2746efa7425b58c231327084545f0db5 *debian-31r2-i386-businesscard.iso
> >
> > Justin Piszcz  wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Austin English wrote:
> >
> > > I've been trying to download debian to setup a samba
> > > server. I've downloaded the base install and the
> > > business card net install cd's several times, from
> > > several different mirrors, on 3 different computers,
> > > in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and wget, with ftp and
> > > http, but every time, the md5 checksum fails. When
> > > attempting to install, it fails while loading
> > > component files off the cdrom or installing the base
> > > system (can't recall which file off hand, I'll check
> > > tommorow). Is this a known problem for 3.1? Or are all
> > > of my computers and internet connections coordinating
> > > to drive me insane?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Austin E
> > > Texas
> > >
> > >
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> > Probably bad RAM.
> >
> > Run memtest86.
> >
> >
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