Fwd: Could not mount ntfs partition in Ubuntu 9.10

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Lawrence Tsang <tkwinfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Patton and All,
>
>      The problem is in the downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 ".iso" file, not in the
> burning process.
>
>      Now my downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 ".iso" file has a correct md5sum.
Bad luck & bad downloads? Wget should recover automatically but I have
seen situations where you still end up with a bad bit here or there.
The easiest method would be using the rsync protocol against one of
the mirrors.

For example:
rsync -avPc http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/9.10/release/ubuntu-9.10-dvd-amd64.iso
.

might do the trick, although probably will upset the site admin with
the usage of checksum (-c) option :) which would have detected any bad
bits during the download. The rest of the options above are show
progress (P), archive (sets the metadata as the same as the target
file, defaults to  -rlptgoD options!) and more verbose (-v) than
usual.

The other best method would be using a good Bittorrent client which
would check all of the file against the torrent tracker and fix the
broken bits and pieces although some idiots in various administrations
still think P2P equals to illegal. :(
Downloading the torrent file from torrent.ubuntu.com
(http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#bt) and pointing it
to the existing suspect file should be enough but most clients have
the option of re-checking.
-- 
Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org