What is the best way to obtain an exact copy download?-->wrong md5 after downloading 5.3dsc1,2=(

[Mark Jayson Alvarez]

Good day!
  After downloading disc1 and disc2 of freebsd 5.3, my
boss told me to verify the download using md5. And to
my surprise, none of those two iso's have the same md5
as that of the md5 written in CHECKSUM.md5.

  This is the first time I ever use the md5 and for so
long, I didn't bother doing so with every huge
download I make. But then the previous cd's works
fine. My boss told me that if I continue to burn those
ISO's, somewhere within the disc, there's a broken
file and I'm gonna have a problem for sure. He also
told me that there are a lot of factors behind this..

Question:
   On the middle of my download,  how will I know if
I'm still downloading the correct file, that no packet
is being dropped and that I will end up in a perfect
mirror file download? Do you know any downloading tool
that will do just like this? Earlier, I just used the
konqueror when I downloaded those ISO's. Is it really
that hard to download? We're using E1 modems and our
internet connection is quite fast. I'm just thinking,
we are still lucky because of this. But how about
those people with low bandwidth internet connection?
Do they have a choice?

How about the fetch(1) program? How accurate is it?



Thanks.







		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. 
www.yahoo.com