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>]

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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 18:31:02 -0400

 Well! The 8.0 iso burns and works perfectly. I had just assumed that all tho=
 se 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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 > From: Rick Rodman <richard.rodman%gmail.com@localhost>
 > To: "gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost" <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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 > Subject: Re: install/53531: The ISO files you have for download are bad. T=
 hey 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 cou=
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 > e of months ago produced only coasters, and the other iso's I looked at al=
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 > ad nonzero bytes at the beginning. Thanks for replying so quickly! NetBSD t=
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 > e truly portable OS!
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 > Rick
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 > I have no internet, so it may be a week or more before I get back to you.
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 >> On Aug 16, 2018, at 2:50 PM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
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 >> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 >> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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 >> Subject: Re: install/53531: The ISO files you have for download are bad. T=
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 >> 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=
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 >>> click on the ISO link. The file downloads pretty fast, which is good, an=
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 >  the size matches (around 700MB), but the file is unusable because it has a=
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 > egabyte (or more) of zeros on the front of it.
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 >> 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
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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=3D20
 >> SHA512 (NetBSD-8.0-i386.iso) =3D3D b08497b71a4031538a76ce8e5289de4047f55c=
 473=3D
 > 3457b3d1e84b905f4371dd622edf459bea663a528787eb2ee21b3775b8e05fe1563b1f1bbf=
 72=3D
 > ddccd117262
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 >> Martin
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