Re: problem

[Bob McGowan]

walter wrote:

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:06 +0200, walter wrote:
I've
lost a lot of time and plastic trying to download your dvds, cds. All
corrupt. It seems you or somebody else don't want people know about

your

distro.

What were the problems you experienced ?

Regards,

Bart Martens

I can download ubuntu livecd, gentoo livecd, etc. with `direct download
from ftp' without problems in a couple of hours. I can do the same with
torrent. I know how to burn a cd. With your distro it's imposible for me
do the same, direct, torrent, jigdo or whatever I use. I've tried
downloading your dvds with emule, I've downloaded with emule and burned
hundred of iso images without problem. The two times the debian dvds had
corrupted packets (six dvd in total). And the md5sum say OK!
This is my experience and I have not need of lie you. I am a bit tired
that each time I write to a linux developers they treat me like an idiot
(That's why I became ironic). I repeat I know how download and burn a
cd. If you don't know where's the problem, your problem, it is difficult
I do. And it would be a good new for you that somebody complains about
can't download your distro. After all I am giving a favor telling you
about this.

--
Bob McGowan

I've downloaded both CD and DVD images from the Debian servers at various times and have no problems whatsoever burning or using them. However, I now prefer to use the netinst image and download only the packages actually needed or wanted. Have you tried installing that way? If the MD5 sum is OK, I would assume the problem is not with the download or the server, it's at your end, somehow. Though it is possible that the original has corruption and that the MD5 sum is based on that corrupted image and so reports a good download. However, if this is true, you would not be the only one (that I know of) making this complaint. By the way, this particular mailing list has a lot of people on it who may well be developers, but don't work on Debian. We are users, as the list name suggests.

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