FC6 pre-Release CDROM 1

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 04:46 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> lør, 30 09 2006 kl. 22:26 -0400, skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 22:06 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:13:45PM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > >  > Hi,
> > >  > 
> > >  > When I try to boot from the first CD: "FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso"
> > >  > 
> > >  > I get the following message:
> > >  > 
> > >  > ISOLINUX 3.11 2005-09-02  Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
> > >  > Couold not find kernel image: linux
> > >  > boot:
> > >  > 
> > >  > Please help.  What can I do now?
> > > 
> > > Curious. We had a bug like this bite quite a few users circa FC4.
> > > The workaround at the time was to type in some random garbage
> > > like ioufhdsfhgusg, hit return, then delete it and type 'linux'.
> > > 
> > > It would be a surprise if this bug came back, but it's worth a
> > > shot trying the old workaround :)
> > 
> > That did not work.
> > 
> > I just noticed that the md5sum does not match.  Looks like I have to
> > return to the torrent and start over, hmmm. ):
> > The torrent is very slow.
> > 
> > 
> > [williams at bengal cdrom]$ md5sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> > bc6187fd174ffdf55ab2fa2443d7bd59  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
> > 
> > But the file "SHA1SUM" says:
> > 455e02527fb793c37f129965b23814c4d0a48965
> 
> Bittorrent is checksummed quite heavily thus the image you have is the
> same one pushed by the Fedora Project. If there is a checksum error it's
> likely that you could try burning the image at a lower speed because the
> torrent should deliver the correct thing no question.
> 
> This after all is one of the biggest advantages of Bittorrent, it's
> resumable and you are ensured always to get the correct file without bit
> errors.

Okay, this what I got from the torrent earlier today:
=======================================================================
[williams at bengal cdrom]$ ls -lh
total 3.3G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 687M Sep 30 23:02 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 657M Sep 30 23:03 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 688M Sep 30 23:05 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 677M Sep 30 23:06 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr 660M Sep 30 23:08 FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 williams epicsmgr  699 Sep 30 23:08 SHA1SUM
========================================================================

[williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
71c128ed6b5fa2b5bfe191ac1173794c4c1e94f6  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
[williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
b1470653dd61336b4aa0282598b6373a4df627fd  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
[williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
38f371a5ee27d2418d43a799897514f64b1695d0  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
[williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
44c717b91208c4fccb665bc272876ad06c22fe24  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
[williams at bengal cdrom]$ sha1sum FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
6ebb94f193ebc0eedf209aad3d6701d3d097cf44  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso


Again, this does not match:
==========================================================================
[williams at bengal cdrom]$ more SHA1SUM
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

502b2556b0f5cb6ddb8e997b6ed4d7276a6113c3  FC-6-Pre-i386-rescuecd.iso
455e02527fb793c37f129965b23814c4d0a48965  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc1.iso
1c0b0b637e9aac547a77f4d39bce9b2357819415  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc2.iso
31578c804ba73e01a4864f3e135cc197e146dbff  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc3.iso
54b9931d2ec4f6ea88e557e213a788886a13a4c9  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc4.iso
473e0de1d2bcefca1b82fa358232bac7c8b901e7  FC-6-Pre-i386-disc5.iso
38a9e1577008f694d6fbb2f43fae3d1d89de4439  FC-6-Pre-i386-DVD.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFFHRAjtEJp0E8qb9IRAhujAJ4osReXPchXGH8qhXFwAlUlour0oACfYLBG
EqaE2lRMeJST3toi4BXoIC0=
=M62z
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
==========================================================================

What am I doing wrong or is it back to the torrent?




Thanks,
Ernest









> 
> - David Nielsen
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