corrupt fc4 disks

[Kam Leo]

On 6/19/05, James Kaufman <jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:40:43PM -0500, Langer, Christian wrote:
> > I have downloaded fc4 images a couple times, and each time when I do the
> > check of the image, the message is it is corrupt; does anyone know what
> > I am doing wrong?
> >
> > Chris Langer
> > User Services Librarian
> > Tennessee State University Downtown Campus
> > Nashville TN 37203
> > 615-963-7187
> > clanger at tnstate.edu
> >
> 
> You don't mention how you downloaded the images. Perhaps you are using ftp in
> ASCII mode. That would account for the corruption.
> 
> Are the images burned to a CD when you do the image check? Or are you just
> doing a sha1sum? What does "ls -l FC4*.rpm" display?
> 
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> Jim Kaufman
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