There's nothing yet to suggest that it's not just a corrupted download.
Cosmic ray bit flip also a possibility.
“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch
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Re: “Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch
#22Redownload. Check again. I'm on satellite internet with the horrible latencies and frequent timeouts associated with that tech, I recently had the netinstall image for Debian fail integrity checking three times in a row, from the http mirrors. Guy from the link said it himself, download via torrent and all is well. Generally, being on such terrible interwebs I get angry whenever I hear people claim torrents are only…
Switch to HTTPS. Debian supports using HTTPS mirrors.
I did use HTTPS mirrors. Doesn't help my problem. Unlike torrents.
Re: “Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea that's one thing I really love about torrents. Because of the giant set of hashes they use, it makes it really great to verify integrity of the download. You've got a hash for each block (128k by default) and for the overall download, along with the complete size of the file.
> each block (128k by default) Depends on the seed creation software, Tixati defaults to 256k for instance, kind-of: it's the default value of the box, but a new default is recomputed based on the amount of data included in the torrent. If I try to seed my local install of Bastion (920MB) it picks 1MB, Atom Zombie Smasher (25MB) yields 64kB, and Shadowrun Hong Kong (9GB) picks 4MB.
Interesting. It's been a long time since I've created any of my own (a decade? geeze I feel old) so it's apparently a bit different.