Re: [Sheflug] Ktorrenting Kubuntu 7.10

[John Southern <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lesley,

> I've been trying to torrent down Kubuntu 7.10 DVD using Ktorrent.
>
> I did this before and assumed the thing had worked only to find a
> corrupt iso when I went to burn it.  I discovered the data integrity
> check in Ktorrent and used that on the download after it claims it is
> complete only to repeatedly find over 500 chunks are corrupt at the
> start and end of the iso.
>
> This data integrity check automatically restarts the download and I find
>   I am lacking about 13% of the iso.
>
> Has anyone else suffered these problems.  A debian net install and a
> Ubuntu LiveCD have both downloaded okay.

Yes.
Using KTorrent I can get all but four chunks, which seem to keep resetting 
once the counter gets to 32/32 back to 0/32. Eventually, all will download, 
only for half an hour later (I leave the torrent going for others), two of 
these to restart downloading again.
If I do an integrity check, I find that all four are corrupt and it all starts 
again.
My MD5sum for the ISO is always wrong.

This has occurred for both Gutsy and Feisty.

Changing to Azureus got me a copy of Feisty (Although it did make a little 
mess of Java) and I gave up this time with KTorrent and Gutsy after it had 
the same problem so used a CD copy.

I would love to know if this is just a KTorrent issue and then to know it is 
not my bad luck with torrents (Only tried one other time to use a torrent and 
I managed to burn a HD, although that could have just been the HD dying at 
the time I tried to torrent a Suse)

John


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