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Re: DVD download



>From one Mark to another: In case you haven't tried it, I use jigdo for downloading Debian after having similar browser related issues as you in the past.  In my experience jigdo has been great, super fast and since it automatically checksums the downloads you have no work to do.

http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/

Mark

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> wrote:
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


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