Re: install/53531: The ISO files you have for download are bad. They have a megabyte of zeros on the front.

[Rick Rodman <richard.rodman%gmail.com@localhost>]

Well! The 8.0 iso burns and works perfectly. I had just assumed that all those zeros were a problem. The more fool me. Sorry! Good work guys!

I have no internet, so it may be a week or more before I get back to you.

> On Aug 18, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Rick Rodman <richard.rodman%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> The following reply was made to PR install/53531; it has been noted by GNATS.
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> From: Rick Rodman <richard.rodman%gmail.com@localhost>
> To: "gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost" <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: install/53531: The ISO files you have for download are bad. They have a megabyte of zeros on the front.
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:11:51 -0400
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> Hmm. I'll try burning the 8.0 image then. The 7.x image I downloaded a coupl=
> e of months ago produced only coasters, and the other iso's I looked at all h=
> ad nonzero bytes at the beginning. Thanks for replying so quickly! NetBSD th=
> e truly portable OS!
> 
> Rick
> 
> I have no internet, so it may be a week or more before I get back to you.
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2018, at 2:50 PM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
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>> The following reply was made to PR install/53531; it has been noted by GNA=
> TS.
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>> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
>> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
>> Cc:=20
>> Subject: Re: install/53531: The ISO files you have for download are bad. T=
> hey
>> have a megabyte of zeros on the front.
>> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:49:50 +0200
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>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 05:50:00PM +0000, richard.rodman%gmail.com@localhost wrote:=
> 
>>> click on the ISO link. The file downloads pretty fast, which is good, and=
>  the size matches (around 700MB), but the file is unusable because it has a m=
> egabyte (or more) of zeros on the front of it.
>> =20
>> Why do you think this is wrong?
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>> Here is how the (known good) original looks:
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>> [/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images] > ls -lh NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso
>> -r--r--r--  2 builds  builds  677M Jul 18 00:26 NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso
>> [/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images] > hexdump NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso | head -15
>> 0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>> *
>> 0008000 4301 3044 3130 0001 654e 4274 4453 2020
>> 0008010 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
>> 0008020 2020 2020 2020 2020 454e 4254 4453 385f
>> 0008030 2030 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
>> 0008040 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 0000
>> 0008050 492e 0005 0500 2e49 0000 0000 0000 0000
>> 0008060 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>> 0008070 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0100 0001 0100
>> 0008080 0800 0008 a63a 0000 0000 3aa6 0018 0000
>> 0008090 0000 0000 0000 2d00 0000 0000 0022 0042
>> 00080a0 0000 0000 4200 1000 0000 0000 0010 3337
>> 00080b0 3636 6133 0234 0000 0001 0100 0001 2020
>> 00080c0 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
>> =20
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>> Have you verified the checksum of the file you downloaded?
>> [/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images] > fgrep NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso SHA512=20
>> SHA512 (NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso) =3D b08497b71a4031538a76ce8e5289de4047f55c473=
> 3457b3d1e84b905f4371dd622edf459bea663a528787eb2ee21b3775b8e05fe1563b1f1bbf72=
> ddccd117262
>> =20
>> =20
>> Martin
>> =20
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