[Klug-general] Fedora 8

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 16:21:43 GMT 2007


Karl Buckland wrote:
> George Prowse wrote:
>> Can I just suggest to people here that are thinking of trying the new 
>> Fedora to download it from the mirrors (I used the Uni of Kent one) 
>> because I have had problems with the torrent versions, 2 failed to 
>> install.
>>
> That's strange because Bittorrent uses checksums on each chunk of the 
> file as they are transferred. A direct HTTP download has much more 
> chance of becoming corrupted.
> 
> Did the checksum of the ISO check out ok?
> 
> 
Unfortunately I just used the Nautilus cd burner which doesn't check it, 
I should have used k3b. I do get the feeling that it was a problem that 
was released with the release though.



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