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ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 08 2004,22:52

Oh , boy..

My thinkpad has a 20X cdrom drive..
It doesn't like burned disks at all... period..
I have had some success with burning at 4x..
I can forget 12x or higher with my drive..

Did your md5sums match?
For as far as you got, My impression wasn't a bad .iso file,
just "on the edge" readability from the cdrom..

use this..
goto the directory where you have the .iso file..
type this..
"md5sum dsl-0.8.0.iso"
you'll get a checksum ..
Compare it to the dsl-0.8.0.iso.md5.txt file ..
You'll find it in the same place you found the .iso file to download...

My guess is that they will match ..
If they don't , than d/l it again..
If they do, try a slower burn speed..

Another thing to try is copying the contents of the cdrom
to the hard drive using another os, like tomsrtbt or windows.

Then bootup using the " dsl fromhd=hda1 " command ,
or whatever your partition is on your drive..
no NTFS partitions allowed, only fat/fat32, or linux ext2

And lastly, you can use the frugal_lite method to
install a poorman's install to your hard drive, if you
have a broadband connection...

73
ke4nt

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Posted: Sep. 09 2004,17:12

No the md5's don't match but I problem I have noticed is that sometimes a file doesn't download at the same size as reported, like for example a 12.7 mb file might actually be between 12.5 to 12.9. That has happened to me before, that would change the md5 wouldn't it. Won't the filesystem on my computer if it's different from the server's filesystem make some problems with the md5. I'll redownload if changing the burn speed doesn't help.

dsl-0.8.0 said 50000 some bytes but what I downloaded was 44700 some. Won't that change the md5.

Reported checksum ( md5sum.exe ):
aedaf73dc50090d8902e988a0cfd5876 *dsl-0.8.0.iso

What DSL says it should be:
0794134f05c78903e1ac2de573e2d421 dsl-0.8.0.iso

ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 12 2004,19:28

A: Use wget to download the .iso , NOT a browser..
( If your using another OS, use an FTP program ..)

B: Regardless of the file size reported by different programs,
the MD5sum MUST match, or your download is corrupted ..

The repository rounds off filesizes, emelfm rounds off filesizes ..
Use a shell to see exact byte counts. They should MATCH exactly ..
( WinMD5 is a good program for checking .iso downloads in W2K/XP )

Try again with the dsl-0.8.1.1.iso

73
ke4nt

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Posted: Sep. 20 2004,23:47

OK, I obtained a verified 8.1.1 iso
However before I burn it I want to make I got things right.

CD-RW or CD-R ?
What speed ?
I have Roxio Easy CD Creator,
should I use something else ?
I have also an old build of cdrecord for windows,
will that work ( better ? ) ?

ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 21 2004,00:02

IMHO

I'd use a cdr - not a cdrw..many drives do not support cdrw media stay away from the blue dyes, use the lt. green/nearly clear ones.

Burn at 4x 2x 1x , whatever time you can tolerate ..
Roxio is fine, just burn the ISO IMAGE to the CDR ..
Do not use the UDF packet format..

I'm not familiar with cdrecord for windows..

73
ke4nt

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