Re: DVD download

[Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>]

On Sunday 05 July 2009 05:45 pm, Lorenzo Beretta wrote:
> Mark Neidorff ha scritto:
> > This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1
> >
> > Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from
> > debian.org's site.  It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so
> > today I again downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb and again fails
> > sha1sum.  I have now downloaded the same file--
> > debian-502.amd64-DVD-1.iso -- from 2 mirrors and each time the file is
> > 2.0 Gb in size.  So, I'm guessing that something has gone wrong at Debian
> > and the errors are mirrored to the other sites?
>
> uh? I see the update cd is exactly 2.0G, could it be that you downloaded
> that by mistake? :)
> Otherwise you might either
> 1) have a browser that can't download >2G - including my beloved
> iceweasel ==> google for something that works
> 2) download it by some other means, eg torrent (it also does checksums
> for you, just in case)
>
> > Should I even bother downloading the DVD image now or send a report to
> > debian? If I should send a report, who should I send it to?

I've started a torrent download.  I'll see what I get.

Thanks,

Mark