Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:12:34 -0600 From: "Steven N. Fettig" <freebsd@stevenfettig.com> To: "Martin Hudec (www.webcom.sk)" <hudec@webcom.sk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems with FreeBSD 4.9 disk 1 ISO image Message-ID: <40338EF2.9080306@stevenfettig.com> In-Reply-To: <200402181121.20444.hudec@webcom.sk> References: <40331ABB.90002@pacific.net.sg> <40332DFA.3070204@countrypure.net> <40333015.9090103@pacific.net.sg> <200402181121.20444.hudec@webcom.sk>
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Martin Hudec (www.webcom.sk) wrote: >Did you try to burn it using slower speed? This is maybe a long shot.. > >Cheers, >Martin > > > Martin actually has a point. I have had problems with the FreeBSD 5.1.2 ISO's - which made me think that for some reason the ISO's I was downloading were corrupted (every time I tried to install it on *one* of my machines, it crapped out with an error when installing the base system). I checked the MD5 checksums and found out they were the same. Two things that solved this: burning at a lower speed and in one case, and downloading the ISO again in another case. Another oddity I learned about in a situation some months ago: I work a lot on OS X/Macs. I downloaded one of the ISO's over night, copied it the next morning to a FAT formatted firewire HD, brought it to work and burned it on another OS X machine after copying it over from the firewire HD. The install process using *that* CD always errored out (I tried burning it 3 times). I went back to the original OS X computer and burned a copy from the ISO I had originally downloaded and voila - no problems. I found that copying from one FS to another can also sometimes corrupt ISO's. I don't understand why, but this is not the first time this has happened - and it is not only with FreeBSD ISO's. I learned to always double check the MD5's after that and be careful of crossing FS's multiple times. Steve Fettig
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