Install virtual box
and try installing from it, even though it failed md5
I had trouble with one (dvd) once and tested it, it worked, I used it many times and never had trouble.
(But, remember if I had got in to trouble, I could rescue myself) Hence this is not normally a good idea. But virtual box is a safe testing ground
are you absolutely certain that you are correctly checking the sum
of the downloaded iso?
what program are you using?
have you used more than one program to check the sum?
if not, and if you have not used the one mentioned on the Download
Help page, then do so please
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On 2011-03-31 00:36, Yippee38 wrote:
> I plugged my laptop directly into my cable modem to get the router out
> of the picture. Did the download and got the same bad MD5.
You mean on each download you get the same code, the same value out of md5,
but a bad value? It means you get the same identical file, with the same error.
Very curious indeed.
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Yup. It is weird. I’m using the Windows application called MD5 Checker 2.31 from TSoft.
I got my openSUSE running again, and did a download using aria2c. It worked fine and got a good checksum. I don’t get it.
AHHHH! I downloaded the MD5 checksum tool recommended on the Download Help page and ran it. The checksum matched. I ran the sha1 version. That too matched. I then did the verification on the same file, with the same md5 checksum on the tools I’ve been using and it failed and gave the same, wrong checksum.
It wasn’t a problem with the files. It’s a problem with the checksum tool I was using. It works fine for small files, but not for large files apparently.
So as a warning to anybody else who is having trouble downloading files and getting the MD5 sum to match . . . .
if you are using an MD5 checking tool that looks like this:
http://www.yippee38.net/images/Temp/MD5Checker.jpg
IT DOES NOT WORK correctly on large files!
On 03/31/2011 06:36 PM, Yippee38 wrote:
>
> It wasn’t a problem with the files. It’s a problem with the checksum
> tool I was using.
i thought so…
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Did you tell us you were using windows earlier?
I feel like crying.
Don’t you have a Linux OS to do it all on?
I did say I was using Windows. I have openSUSE on my desktop, but it became corrupted (the root partition was corrupt). I was able to recover it last night. That’s when I tried the download via linux. I hadn’t been able to do so before that.
On 03/31/2011 07:36 PM, caf4926 wrote:
>
> Did you tell us you were using windows earlier?
> I feel like crying.
>
> Don’t you have a Linux OS to do it all on?
“somehow my OpenSUSE linux install has gotten corrupted (or
something), so I don’t have access to a linux install … I’m
downloading to an NTFS file system on both machines.”
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On 2011-03-31 18:36, Yippee38 wrote:
> AHHHH! I downloaded the MD5 checksum tool recommended on the ‘Download
> Help’ (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help) page and ran it. The
> checksum matched. I ran the sha1 version. That too matched. I then
> did the verification on the same file, with the same md5 checksum on the
> tools I’ve been using and it failed and gave the same, wrong checksum.
>
> It wasn’t a problem with the files. It’s a problem with the checksum
> tool I was using. It works fine for small files, but not for large
> files apparently.
AHHH Indeed!
I wonder if we should add this info to the help page in the wiki.
(Do we have more people we bad download images here? Tell them)
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Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 03/31/2011 09:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> I wonder if we should add this info to the help page in the wiki.
>
good idea…i added it to the page (if it gets past the minders)…
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Ouch… well, thank-you for posting back. Not your fault it wasn’t working.
Moral of the story: Don’t use software that is crap. Of course that’s
probably why you’re trying to leave windows in the first place.
Good luck.
On 03/31/2011 12:06 PM, Yippee38 wrote:
>
> caf4926;2315488 Wrote:
>> Did you tell us you were using windows earlier?
>> I feel like crying.
>>
>> Don’t you have a Linux OS to do it all on?
>
> I did say I was using Windows. I have openSUSE on my desktop, but it
> became corrupted (the root partition was corrupt). I was able to
> recover it last night. That’s when I tried the download via linux. I
> hadn’t been able to do so before that.
>
>
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On 2011-04-01 03:58, ab wrote:
> Ouch… well, thank-you for posting back. Not your fault it wasn’t working.
>
> Moral of the story: Don’t use software that is crap. Of course that’s
> probably why you’re trying to leave windows in the first place.
Not the fault of windows, really.
The fault was of the people that programmed that md5 checker, which
probably has used a compiler with file indexes with a 4 GiB limit. I use a
compiler in linux that also has that limit, I can’t read files bigger than
4 GiB. If I made an md5 checker with that compiler in linux, it would also
fail. Would that be the fault of linux? No.
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Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
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Sorry… I was making a joke about his migration from Linux in the first
place. I’ll be more clear next time.
Good luck.
On 03/31/2011 08:33 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2011-04-01 03:58, ab wrote:
>> Ouch… well, thank-you for posting back. Not your fault it wasn’t working.
>>
>> Moral of the story: Don’t use software that is crap. Of course that’s
>> probably why you’re trying to leave windows in the first place.
>
> Not the fault of windows, really.
>
> The fault was of the people that programmed that md5 checker, which
> probably has used a compiler with file indexes with a 4 GiB limit. I use a
> compiler in linux that also has that limit, I can’t read files bigger than
> 4 GiB. If I made an md5 checker with that compiler in linux, it would also
> fail. Would that be the fault of linux? No.
>
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On 2011-04-01 05:06, ab wrote:
> Sorry… I was making a joke about his migration from Linux in the first
> place. I’ll be more clear next time.
Ah, Ok 
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(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)