md5sum doesn't match with BitTorrent

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 5 23:27:05 UTC 2003


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Gregory Gulik wrote:

> 
> I used the suggested BitTorrent download of the Fedora isos and the 
> first disc is now done but the md5sum doesn't match what's in the MD5SUM 
> file that was also downloaded.
> 
> Anyone else notice that???
> 
> The file does seem to mount correctly with mount -o loop...

I don't think bittorrent downloads one file at a time (or all the bits
in sequential order). Just wait until it is completely done - before
doing md5sum check.

Satish





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