jjramsey
February 4th, 2005, 01:33 AM
I downloaded the LiveCD ISO from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/array-3.5-live/ and burned it using cdrecord from fink. The ISO dated from January 26, 2005. For me, the CD didn't work out too well. X couldn't detect the video, and I got dropped to a login prompt. This obviously doesn't seem to be everyone's experience, but for all I know maybe they used an earlier version of the CD and something broke later.
The MD5 sum for the ISO is fine. If I mount the ISO, cd to it and run "md5sum -c md5sum.txt", I get a lot of "can't open /path/to/really-long-filename-longer-than-32-characters.udeb" errors, and it appears that for every such error there was a file on the mounted ISO named "/path/to/really-long-filename-longer-tha", where the filename was truncated to 32 characters in length. For comparison, I downloaded the ISO for the i386 version of the LiveCD, and on the i386 CD, running "md5sum -c md5sum.txt" leaves no error message, and there were no issues with the filenames being truncated. As far as I can tell, the filenames aren't being truncated at my end, but they are like that on the ISO.
Whether this has anything to do with the LiveCD bombing on me, I don't know.
The MD5 sum for the ISO is fine. If I mount the ISO, cd to it and run "md5sum -c md5sum.txt", I get a lot of "can't open /path/to/really-long-filename-longer-than-32-characters.udeb" errors, and it appears that for every such error there was a file on the mounted ISO named "/path/to/really-long-filename-longer-tha", where the filename was truncated to 32 characters in length. For comparison, I downloaded the ISO for the i386 version of the LiveCD, and on the i386 CD, running "md5sum -c md5sum.txt" leaves no error message, and there were no issues with the filenames being truncated. As far as I can tell, the filenames aren't being truncated at my end, but they are like that on the ISO.
Whether this has anything to do with the LiveCD bombing on me, I don't know.