Hi all, I have just finished a day of reading and downloading Fedora and am a bit puzzled - so here goes:

I know that after the giant downloads checking checksums comes before burning iso's.

I read here how-to do it in win98 (my current o/s), downloaded MD5 for windows from toast442 (.org) and did the check.... got the green go cicles (means everything checked out right)

Heres the fishy part, from other posts I read while waiting for that suuuuper long dvd-iso download I was sure the file was to be around 4G and equally sure that the 2.9G I ended up with put me in the ranks of all the other folks who had "half-load coasters" thanks to download limit errors. <- sorry that was a bit windy...

Anyshoes, now I'm not sure if the iso file and the checker program are wrong, or if Fedora has been slimmed down and I missed that in my readings somewhere...

I was hoping to get it clarified here before I wreck one fifth of my total DVD allotment! - usually I'm an avid experimenter but as I've only got 5 I'm feeling kinda miserly about them :.)


I beg and bow to those in the know... what should I do?


Cheers and Thanx!

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#download

There's a note here about the DVD. It says the DVD is over 4Gb in size, so it doesn't sound like you've got the whole lot.
Exact wording:
EDIT
Just out of interest, I've taken a look at my FC3 DVD. It's 2.3Gb. Make of that what you will.

Use BitTorrent to download the file instead of using HTTP or FTP programs to download. BitTorrent is setup in a way that it does md5sum on the file. Azureus is good BitTorrent client programmed in JAVA.

You did not say what version of Fedora. There are 3 versions. Fedora Core 3 looks like it has a total of 2.3 GB to 2.5 GB.

BTW, as a test, I'm downloading the Official Fedora Core 2 Final i386 (4.1 GB) from the torrent file at http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/. Azureus estimates that it will take about a little over 9 hours.

Thanx for all input - I'm sorry the post didn't say FC3 was what I downloaded, I had asked the same question in a number of linux irc rooms previously so I must have thought I put that in - my bad, apologies apologies.

I do thank you for the link pongmaster, but I'd actually already seen several posts/copies of that already which is why I was worried :.)

I did start to wonder after posting here and reading more, if it may have had something to do with the version I got so TY TY Electro for verifying that the versions are in fact different sizes. Mine was 2.9 for FC3, I checked the md5 number the toast program came up with against the one posted on the red hat fedora project site:

<To install from a DVD that you plan to burn, download the following ISO image files:

For x86-compatible (32-bit): FC3-i386-DVD.iso (md5sum: ca49964739f84848ca78fc03662272fb)
For x86_64 (64-bit AMD64, EM64T):
FC3-x86_64-DVD.iso (md5sum: 2786a751df919f340d967a4833b63b16)
Note: If you are using HTTP or FTP to download, some download clients cannot handle the DVD image because it is larger than 4 gigabytes. Please refer to the documentation of your download client for details. >

the numbers matched exactly, so I took a chance and burned the iso to DVD, now when I check the file size on the DVD it says 1.99G... good gravy what gives now?

+a semi-related question if I may: can I do a test install of it on a sepreate partition, say the D part of my win98 fat32 drive? Meaning without reformatting/partioning and stuff? Its a 20gig slice of a 40gig drive with just files on it that I won't miss if I have to erase them.

Thanks for the help all~
Cheers!