I've also had some trouble downloading the DVD version. I tried a straight ftp d/l because of the speed advantage over torrents, but it cratered out about 87% complete. So I fired up Azureus, clicked on the torrent link and pointed it to where my partial download was. It was slow, about 20K most of the time, but did fill in the rest of the file. The problem started when I checked the MD5, didn't match. So started Azureus again and used 'force recheck' repeatedly to try and get it right. Also turned off the quick recheck option so it would automatically recheck whenever the file was complete. Did this off and on for two weeks and never did get a correct download. Also tried Shadow's BT program. This system is running win98, a p3 500, FAT32, cable internet with a linksys router. I really wanted to use this system because I had just installed a new (and very cheap) dvd burner in it.

Decided there had to be a better way. I installed Azureus on my daughter's computer, a 1.3 ghz AMD with XP home and also a FAT32 filesystem, also hooked up to the above mentioned router. Fired it up and couldn't believe the difference! It downloaded the torrent at an average of around 200k and I noticed it went above 300k a few times. As far as I can tell all of the settings were the same on both units. I think a little extra horsepower and the xp OS makes a big difference running Azureus. Only took about 5 hours to complete the d/l. The MD5 checked out fine.

Next step was to get the ISO on the win 98 machine. Tried a file splitter but the result also would not pass the MD5 check. Thought about file transfer over the network but have never tried that before, and didn't want to take the time to learn to do it at that particular time. So I removed the burner from the win 98 machine and hooked it up to the XP machine. I then booted up Slax to memory on it and used k3b to burn a couple of Knoppix DVD's. Worked great. I also burned a DVD with just the ISO file on it. The md5 checked out on this file also. The knoppix dvd seemed to work fine on the xp machine. Removed the burner and put it back in the p3 win 98 system. Booted up the knoppix dvd, worked fine. Rebooted with both Slax and win 98 and the dvd with ISO file passed the md5 check from those systems both times. Used Slax to copy the ISO to each of my 2 hard drives- MD5 does NOT check out on the hard drive copies? I don't know why this is.

My only theories so far is that maybe the bios (1999) is too old to handle these large files, or maybe there's a limitation in the processor somehow. As far as I can tell, my hard drives are OK. Also when I'm running win 98, I can't copy those ISO files, get an error- something like invalid parameter- it can't handle copying that large a file. Knoppix or Slax don't seem to have a problem, though. Shouldn't be the FAT32 system per se, but I just can't get a correct MD5 from a DVD ISO when it's on my hard drives.
Any ideas why this would be? Sorry for the long post, but this has me puzzled.

BTW, the Knoppix DVD is VERY impressive.

Thanks