FC3 DVD iso question - actual size?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Nov 19 21:43:37 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 21:27 +0000, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Would someone please enlighten me:
>
> The size of the DVD-iso of FC3 is listed as :
> 2466410496 bytes
> I have downloaded it three times from three
> separate sources and each time it is listed
> as size: 2147483647 bytes
>
> Needless to say it fails the MD5SUM test. What is the cause of
> this behavior? Sites used include mirrors.kernel.org amongst others.
>
Have you confirmed that your ftp client is using binary mode?
Some clients default to ASCII mode and using ASCII mode with a binary
file results in a different file size and corrupt data.
HTH
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