From o.mahmoudi@gmx.de Tue Jun 24 11:25:43 2008 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598F41065674 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from o.mahmoudi@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A60B78FC2E for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from o.mahmoudi@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 4534 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jun 2008 10:59:01 -0000 Received: from 80.130.69.184 by www161.gmx.net with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:59:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20080624105901.51250@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:59:01 +0200 From: "Oliver Mahmoudi" To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Downloading FreeBSD 7.0 >Number: 124930 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Downloading FreeBSD 7.0 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: gavin >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 24 11:30:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: Thu Jul 03 11:05:41 UTC 2008 >Last-Modified: Thu Jul 03 11:05:41 UTC 2008 >Originator: >Release: >Organization: >Environment: >Description: Dear FreeBSD Team, I'm writing you because I'd like to ask you if you could give me some advice for the following problem: Lately I've done quite a lot of reading on the FreeBSD OS and I decided to install the latest release on my system. So I went and downloaded the ISO images for the i386 CPU from the following link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ Upon having downloaded the first two images i.e. "7.0-Release-i386-disc1.iso" and "7.0-Release-i386-disc2.iso", I generated their MD5 checksums and realized that they do not agree with the ones published on the above website. I have tried different MD5 generators. I have also downloaded the files from different mirrors such as "torrents" but I always found that the checksum was another. Also, the sizes of the files that I download are different. E.g. the size of the file indicated for disc 1 in the download links is 509MB. The disc 1 files that I downloaded however, had sizes ranging from 210MB to 230MB. Now what do I do? I am eager to install FreeBSD7.0 on my computer, but that checksum matter won't let me sleep. It would be nice if you could give me a hand on this one. Thank you in advance. Regards, Oliver -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: gavin State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 24 12:09:43 UTC 2008 State-Changed-Why: To submitter: The size of the disc 1 ISO image is exactly 534177792 bytes. If you are seeing sizes any different to that then the download is being corrupted somehow and the checksum will be wrong. With FTP, if the transfer is somehow interrupted then you will end up with a shorter, corrupt file. You could try downloading from another mirror closer to yourself (assuming you are in Germany), you could try ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ which I've just downloaded the disc1 ISO and verified the checksum myself. Another thing to check is that you are downloading the ISO in BINARY more and not ASCII - the Windows ftp client at least defaults to ASCII mode which will corrupt the image. I am quite surprised you are seeing this with the torrents, however, as torrents are checksummed in such a way that your torrent downloader should not say the download is complete until every part of it is correct. It may well be worth deleting whatever is downloaded and trying to download the torrent again, possibly with different torrent software. If you are still having problems, let me know what software you are using and I'll test it at this end. If you do successfully manage to download the image, let me know and I'll close this PR. Lastly, for problems like this, you are probably better off asking on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists, like freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org - the PR database is really for reporting bugs in FreeBSD itself, and not general questions. Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->gavin Responsible-Changed-By: gavin Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jun 24 12:09:43 UTC 2008 Responsible-Changed-Why: Track http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=124930 State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed State-Changed-By: gavin State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 3 11:04:50 UTC 2008 State-Changed-Why: Close, submitter has now successfully obtained a copy of the ISO. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=124930 >Unformatted: