On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > 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? > > 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? > > Thanks, > > Mark >
Some web browsers and FTP programs have problems with files over 2GB (particularly if they are Windows based - filesystem size limits.) Sometimes the download will go forward for 2GB, then into negative numbers for the last 2GB :) Firefox has worked for me where IE didn't, for example. HTH, AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
