FC3 DVD iso question - actual size?

[Jeff Vian]

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