Forget Hardy
Bart Silverstrim
bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Thu Jun 12 21:42:06 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:30:09 -0400
>>> Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just in case, and since it only takes a few minutes to do, run the MD5
>>>> sum against your .iso image and compare it to the website's stated MD5.
>>>>
>>> I've just been trying to find these. They're rather cunningly hidden, apparently.
>>>
>>> Searches on ubuntu.com for 'md5' 'md5sum' 'checksum' 'checksums' and 'md5s' yielded nothing.
>>>
>>> Though I never seem to find what I'm after first time there, anyway. Difference of intuition, I imagine.
>>>
>>>
>> It's not as obvious as it should be, probably to keep from confusing new
>> users I'd imagine. But it's at
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
>>
>> From the download page, there's a line telling you how to verify your
>> image, and the link is the one I put up above.
>>
>>
>>
> Thank you Bart. I went to that page and ran the test and my .iso
> file is correct. That doen't mean it all got on the cd-rom but I saw no
> errors or unusual things when I recorded it. And it runs fine. It boots
> and lets you install, but it never completes.
If your md5sum matched the one on the website, your downloaded iso is fine.
The other part of the thread seems to point to a space or partition
problem from glancing at it. I've been sitting back because I hoped
others might have better luck diagnosing from the logfile you posted.
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