I'm trying to download knoppix 5.3.1 from mirror ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/ the (California,USA mirror)

If I use any of the http sites it only downloads 144 Mb's

So anyway from the ftp site I drag and drop the file to my documents (a couple of hours later) then use winmd5sum to check. I've tried downloading a couple of times a couple of months apart and the same md5 cheksum 9a5d393482694f398f1172e6f7f49155.

It must be a corrupt file at the website. Or is it the way I'm trying to save it? People have mentioned using Bittorrent is the best way to go maybe that's what i have to do.

If I'm downloading over a network of many computers does that interupt the file during download and cause the errors?