I downloaded this morning from the torrent provided on the project page. I'm downloading again from the sourceforge page.
I will look at the checksum when I boot it again. I have done nothing that any average user wouldn't try to do. I've made hundreds of bootable USB sticks with no problems but I'll do it again before I quit this effort.
NGIB wrote:I downloaded this morning from the torrent provided on the project page. I'm downloading again from the sourceforge page.
I will look at the checksum when I boot it again. I have done nothing that any average user wouldn't try to do. I've made hundreds of bootable USB sticks with no problems but I'll do it again before I quit this effort.
That doesn't answer the question. Just because the average user doesn't check the md5sum, doesn't mean we all should.
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NGIB wrote:I downloaded this morning from the torrent provided on the project page. I'm downloading again from the sourceforge page.
I will look at the checksum when I boot it again. I have done nothing that any average user wouldn't try to do. I've made hundreds of bootable USB sticks with no problems but I'll do it again before I quit this effort.
It happens. I had a bad "burn" on a USB recently. Download was good, but I decided the stick was flaky after the installer crapped out 75% through, twice in a row. Recreated the stick and all was well.
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NGIB wrote:I have no idea why a user would want to remastercc the install media without upgrading - to me it's the logical first step as you want an updated installable system.
On the contrary, users without high-speed internet (there still are quite a few of them) don't always have the means of system-updating. They rely on remastering for making a few key changes to the default OS.
If the .iso was downloaded by torrent (and completed) then the file is correct. So it may be a bad burn. The MD5sum cannot be wrong on a torrent. Part of the bittorrent protocol is checking sections as they are downloaded. The file has to be right if the torrent was complete.
Many times I've gotten an .iso almost finished and lost he connection. Things are better nowadays. But when that would happen I'd put the file in the torrent client's download file. Fire up the torrent client and let it check the file. It always completed the file that was interrupted during a regular download.
Something else going on. I had a USB FlashDrive that went 'flakey' on me once. I wrote zero to it and it was fine.
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