Bad ISO on Mirror or Mirror??

ghostshell

Downloaded the iso from this mirror, i think its listed as #1 under i386>Live with Installer

http://files.atx.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

Spent an entire night trying hard drive after hard drive trying to install it.

Today I downloaded the ISO from this mirror,

http://files.bgn.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

This one actually launched just like the previous versions I have used to install from CD, as in prompts to launch the installer and then launches the installer and had a successful install with non of the same errors at the first mirror listed above.

The first one gave a bunch and errors then booted, screen was like the normal SSH/CONSOLE PFSense screen and gave the option 99 to install to HDD, tried that 6 times and all failes using 4 different hdd's including a brand new one.

Not sure what the issue is….........

Just now re-downloaded

http://files.atx.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

And burned the ISO to the CD, tested it and still the same errors, it does not boot like every ISO i have used since 2.0.3 which all booted the same

http://files.bgn.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

Have not tested any of the other mirrors for i386>Live with Installer

I believe there is something wrong with the ISO on this mirror or its the mirror itself.

doktornotor

Perhaps you could use the published checksums to check? Eh.

johnpoz

dok – you always have the best answers ;) Who would of thunk to compare a file you download with with the hash/chechsum the makers of the said file provide to see if you got a good copy ;) Just thinking way out side the box there dok ROFL hehehehe ;)

I show that last mirror you linked to file just fine.

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Guest

@ghostshell
This is nothing for the pfSense forum but a short mail to info@pfsense.org would be the best in that situation
as I see it right. By the way what program you were using to burn the LiveCD with installer?
I suggest

for Windows Imgburn and verify the data after burning
perhaps a CRC failure during or after the decompression?
perhaps something wrong during the download? MD5 checksum?

stephenw10

Ok, just downloaded http://files.atx.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz
That is our own servers in Austin BTW.
Ran the checksum and it looks good.

steve@steve-MMLP7AP-00 ~/Downloads $ md5sum pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz 
99028f17ca4706d1f44aac01b5c9d69d  pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

The checksum file:

MD5 (pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz) = 99028f17ca4706d1f44aac01b5c9d69d

Please check your downloaded files against that checksum.

Steve

cmb

There's nothing wrong with any of the files on any of the download sites. Make sure your browser isn't gunzipping the file on the fly and not removing the gz extension, that's usually the cause of the sha/md5 not matching as it's not the same file anymore.

Guest

And burned the ISO to the CD, tested it and still the same errors, it does not boot like every ISO i have used since 2.0.3 which all booted the same

Download the .gz container
unpack the .gz container
burn the ISO image to CD
install

I have verified that with the files from the link shown in the next line:
http://files.bgn.pfsense.org/mirror/downloads/pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.4-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz

No problems at all!
CPU Intel Pentium 3
512 MB RAM
MSI Mainboard
IDE 128 GB SSD

All was running.

mer

Some Windows clients try to muck around with CR/LF if they think they see any ASCII character. Check for an option to download as a binary file.