Maybe a wget bug?

[Brian Murray]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:21:23AM -0600, irlandes wrote:
> I am not sure of this, or I'd be working on a bug report.
> 
> Kubuntu 10.04 on a Dell Vostro laptop.
> 
> I have always used wget for downloading iso's.  Our service in rural
> Mexico is nothing to write about. Also we have file size limitations
> which I did not understand until I installed vnstat last week.
> 
> Over the years wget always gave perfect md5sums no matter how many times
> I interrupted the download with CTRL-Z, then restarted it.
> 
> In recent months, I get bad downloads. I finally let kde-dvd run all the
> way with no interruptions, and got a good download.  I had tried 3 times
> with interruptions and all three were bad on md5sum.
> 
> It may be coincidence. I need to do a lot more work before I decide it
> is a real problem or not.

Some other things you might think about are:

Are you using the same version of wget?

Has the server changed at all?

Which version of the KDE DVD are you downloading?  If it were the Natty
one, the development release, I'd expect something odd to happen.

> Also, I need to try a later version and see if it is the same.
> 
> I think I will need to do a small iso such as puppy. 1.3 GB is too large
> for experiments on my service.

You might try the netboot iso:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

It is about 20M.

-- 
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/attachments/20110225/d9ba73ae/attachment.pgp>