From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 08:12:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F8A16A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:12:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EDF543D3F for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:12:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@stevenfettig.com) Received: (qmail 84452 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2004 16:12:42 -0000 Received: from c68.115.22.188.jvl.wi.charter.com (HELO stevenfettig.com) (68.115.22.188) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2004 16:12:42 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 68.115.22.188 Message-ID: <40338EF2.9080306@stevenfettig.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:12:34 -0600 From: "Steven N. Fettig" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040213 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Martin Hudec (www.webcom.sk)" References: <40331ABB.90002@pacific.net.sg> <40332DFA.3070204@countrypure.net> <40333015.9090103@pacific.net.sg> <200402181121.20444.hudec@webcom.sk> In-Reply-To: <200402181121.20444.hudec@webcom.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Chan Fook Sheng cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems with FreeBSD 4.9 disk 1 ISO image X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:12:43 -0000 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