1 checksum keeps failing with feisty-desktop-i386 21022007

[Matthew Flaschen]

Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:18 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
>> I just downloaded and burned  feisty-desktop-i386.iso of 21.7. I keep
>> getting one checksum fail when I check the disk no matter what I do. I
>> have downloaded the  file three times and burned it to two different
>> disks (from different manufacturers). Could it be that the file is
>> corrupt? I have downloaded and burned feisty twice before this without
>> problems. Actually, to my remembering, I have never had a checksum
>> problem with any of my ubuntu disks before.
>>
>> Is anyone else having problems with this file? In the meantime I might
>> give herd 4 a try to have something to move on with.
> 
> You can mount the ISO itself before burning and check the checksums.
> 
> $ mkdir iso
> $ sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso iso
> $ cd iso
> $ md5sum -c md5sum.txt
> ...
> lots of output
> ...
> 
> If everything's OK, then the ISO is fine, and the problem may lie with
> the burner or media.

If you want to check the iso before burning, just run md5sum on it:

md5sum ubuntu-7.04-whatever.iso

, then compare to the appropriate md5sum at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes .  There's no need to
mount it.

Matthew Flaschen

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