Quote Originally Posted by Jaromba
...I tried burning the iso and booted knoppix from it, using the boot code "knoppix testdvd".
This resulted in a message saying that one of the 78 files didn't match its MD5.
The file was KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ...
Hi,
First of all, the following md5 is correct:

e967af32cc5b9e7a91825877b65555a8 *KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-EN.iso

Then the fact that the KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX cloop "big" file did not match it's md5
means that you got data corruption during the download or from the server.
I agree with Harry that the easiest and safest way to fix it (without redownloading
the whole iso file with the risk to get data corruption again) is to use bittorrent.

Bittorent uses built-in md5 (or equivalent) for each one of the high number of
segments which when put together will make your final download file(s).
So, if one or more segment(s) is/are wrong, Bittorrent will not only tell you
how many of them are wrong (% complete), but will also redownload
the wrong one(s) to fix your download file(s), in your case the iso file.

I will encourage you to check your Bittorrent setup, and eventually change
your firewall settings to get a faster transfert rate (google for bittorrent setup).
But even a slow Bittorrent will be faster than redownloading corrupted iso from ftp servers.
My two cents,
Gilles

Edit: put back the dropped "e" in the md5