Topic: Download file size

[Alan S.]

Could you please tell me the download file size for e-smith 4.0.

Present download tells me it is 193108 Last one was 142317.

I did not have any trouble downloading 3.1 but 4.0 seems a variable filesize.

I am using Go!zilla 3.5.


Thanks

Alan S.

[Paul Nesbit]

Alan S. wrote:

> Could you please tell me the download file size for e-smith 4.0.

The file size is 197742592 bytes.

> Present download tells me it is 193108 Last one was 142317.

It sounds like Go!zilla stopped downloading first at 142317, then managed to get another (193108 - 142317) at another time.  Pherhaps Go!zilla simply has not finished downloading...

Paul

[Robert]

Paul Nesbit wrote:


> > Could you please tell me the download file size for
> e-smith 4.0.
>
> The file size is 197742592 bytes.
>
Are you sure? That's not what it says on the ftp-server. I'd also like to know the file size in bytes, cause my download didn't go very smoothly (thanks to my isp) and I ended up with a file that's 146417901 bytes in size and a different md5sum from the one listed.

[Charlie Brady]

Robert wrote:

> Paul Nesbit wrote:
> Could you please tell me the download file size for
> e-smith 4.0.
> > The file size is 197742592 bytes.
> Are you sure? That's not what it says on the ftp-server.
> I'd also like to know the file size in bytes, cause my
> download didn't go very smoothly (thanks to my isp) and I
> ended up with a file that's 146417901 bytes in size and a
> different md5sum from the one listed.

e-smith-4.0-cdrom.iso.gz is 146417901 bytes and uncompresses to
e-smith-4.0-cdrom.iso which is 197742592 bytes. The md5sum of the compressed image is 50ade6ee362efb8926249253faf48182 and of the uncompressed image is ea3ef076eb81809652798cb5b91dfac8.

If you have a different md5sum then something is wrong with your copy of the file, or something is wrong with your md5sum program.

Regards

Charlie

[Robert]

>> I ended up with a file that's 146417901 bytes in size and a
>> different md5sum from the one listed.

>e-smith-4.0-cdrom.iso.gz is 146417901 bytes and uncompresses to
>e-smith-4.0-cdrom.iso which is 197742592 bytes. The md5sum of the compressed image is >50ade6ee362efb8926249253faf48182 and of the uncompressed image is
>ea3ef076eb81809652798cb5b91dfac8.
 
Thank you, Charlie, for the prompt reply.

>If you have a different md5sum then something is wrong with your copy of the file, or >something is wrong with your md5sum program.

It's probably the file that's corrupt rather than the md5sum program. I used the "reget" command in ftp to get the rest of the file after a connection failure and I believe what that does is check the filesize of the source file against that of the destination file and stop downloading when they're the same. So it's no surprise that my download has the correct byte size but can still have a different md5sum. I won't tax e-smith's ftp server any more through my crappy connection and have asked a friend with a better isp to get the image for me.