Quote Originally Posted by mysh
I don't know what Quickpar is. And where did you get the 4.0.1DVD-EN ISO from? I have only seen the 4.0, plus a patch for 4.0.1.

I am currently suspecting a disk problem, as an attempt to start a brand new torrent kept on failing right at the beginning, with an error about the changelog file not existing. Telling it to save to another partition has allowed it to start up, so we'll see how it runs... And we'll see what Norton Disk Doctor and Windows CheckDisk have to say about the other partition...
Bad choice of terms on may part (and some confusion created by Klaus) The only official English DVD release so far is called KNOPPIX_V4.0DVD-2005-08-16-EN.iso, but it's the 4.0.1 release when you look at what Klaus calls it (such as in the wiki bug section, where he has been active recently). So I don't think we are talking about different files. And my md5 checksum is what you posted that it should be (meaning the files are the same), assuming that you didn't apply any "patch" after you downloaded it. I have used no patch.

We've already exchanged private messages, I'll see what comes of that. It certainly may be a disk problem, although I wish you had a completely different CPU to try it on. You have the md5 of my torrent file now, so you should have confirmed that we are looking at the same file there. And I did use 4.0.3 of BT while you used 4.0.4 but I really don't think that is it. I tend to agree that the disk drive sounds like a likely culprit. But did you try restarting BitTorent and let it check the current file? BT will check the file for you (based on what's in the torrent, and should get the bad sements for you from other peers). I don't know how BT could not at least try to repair the file for you. If there are disk problems that prevent a restart but let you save to a different partition then if all of the downloaded files had been moved or better yet coppied to that partition then the repair would have likely happened.

Please keep me informed, And don't delete the bad iso if you get a good one; it would be helpful if you could compare the two and see what the differences are. It might even turn out that you are starting to see a memory failure (which can contribute to a corrupted disk structure even if the disk hardware is good). I'll keep you posted on that new par2 file also.