On the weirdness of wget, dvd iso's and md5sums
So continuing with my issues in getting fedora core 3 installed on this server at work I decided it would be wise to try downloading the i386 dvd image to assist with the install. First I made the mistake of trying to let firefox download the image, apparetly firefox doesn’t like files over 2gb, it started counting negative sizes and negative rates, I guess there is an overflow in there somewhere.
So I decided to switch over and use a tried and true favorite, wget. So I downloaded it, burned it, and the burn failed. Startled I decided to check the md5sum’s on the iso image to ensure it was an uncorrupted image. Sure enough the image was corrupted, the md5sum didn’t match.
