Keep Failing sha1sum on FC4

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 21:46 -0400, GPL wrote:
> Might there be a corrupt set of ISO files on the download site?
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/
> 
> The last two days I have downloaded the 4 ISO files. Tested media
> during the install and received a FAIL. With FC1-FC3 I kind of cheated
> and just downloaded and installed and never bothered checking but this
> time during an install it stopped part of the way through disc1.
> 
> I have run sha1sum on the first two ISOs and got the following results:
> 
> D:\linuxiso>sha1sum FC4-i386-disc1.iso
> 17540b20a10eceeaf3a38087b1605d8cce1b4a84  FC4-i386-disc1.iso
> 
> D:\linuxiso>sha1sum FC4-i386-disc2.iso
> d06d2dfa10404d34a2013a3310529b0e15e0754c  FC4-i386-disc2.iso
> 
> The redhat site lists it to be:
> FC4-i386-disc1.iso (sha1sum: 3fb2924c8fb8098dbc8260f69824e9c437d28c68) 
> FC4-i386-disc2.iso (sha1sum: 31fdc2d7a1f1709aa02c9ea5854015645bd69504) 
> 
> I'm just wondering at this point, I have downloaded each of those
> files now 2-3 times and they never match.

Try using rsync or bittorrent to "fix" them. If you're on Windows (as
you seem to be), the bittorrent method is probably easier. Install a
bittorrent client (e.g. the one from bittorrent.com) and get the FC4
i386 torrent from
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/stentz-binary-i386.torrent

Start up the bittorrent client and point it at the FC4 torrent file or
URL. Figure out where it's starting to put the downloaded data. Then
stop the bittorrent client, put your already-downloaded broken ISO files
in the place the bittorrent client was going to download them to, and
then start the bittorrent client again. It should then "fix" the files
for you by redownloading only the broken parts (bittorrent uses SHA1
checksums for each "chunk" of the file).

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>