fresh off the boat

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 01:01 -0500, Tab Gilbert wrote:

(snip)
> Downloaded hoary live cd five times via firefox

> (snip)

> Is there something I am doing wrong?  Is it normal for a straight
> download using linux to corrupt so often?  >200 GB downloaded/no MD5
> ever done (never a reason) and nary a problem before.  The Ubuntu
> running now came from a Sir Bill system download.
> 
> Sorry for the rant folks but this is just plain frustration screaming
> out.  

Just a thought: I wonder if it's a Firefox download issue?

maybe try

wget http://url.yourdownload.here

from a terminal? The ISO file should land in your working directory
(/home/user/ for instance, if you just opened a new terminal before
using wget)

Peter