Subj : Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was: CD Distribution Sale]
To : Nightfox
From : jagossel
Date : Wed Aug 16 2017 10:58 pm
Re: Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was: CD Distribution Sale]
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Wed Aug 16 2017 14:43:33
> Vk> These days, with 100/40 Mbps Internet, "network installs" are the way t
o
> Vk> go. I did that with Debian a while back - download a "stub" installer t
hat
> Vk> loads a kernel and a basic set of drivers, then install the rest off th
e
> Vk> net. One advantage I found is that the machine I used has non free netw
ork
>
> That can be handy sometimes, but if I expect to install it more than once, I
'll
> just download an ISO and write it to a USB drive or CD/DVD. And although an
> internet connection is usually reliable, sometimes it will hiccup in the mid
dle
> of an install and get disconnected, which can be frustrating..
That is when I learned the importance of hash checking with MD5, SHA1, or
SHA256 now-a-days.
A few years ago, MSDN had issues with subscribers downloading from their site
outside of Internet Explorer (yes, Microsoft, obviously, made an assumption
that MSDN subscribers are die-hard Microsoft fan-bois that only used IE) and
using the Akami download manager. I remember a former software architect that
got burned by downloading Visual Studio 2012, then installing it without doing
a hash check. Apparently, the download just quit in the middle and it was
enough to trash the .NET framework. He learned a very hard lesson about hash
checks against large downloads.
Thankfully, I had my complete copy on hand that I already gotten through
Microsoft's Akami download manager and I had hash check myself; he just ended
up using that copy instead.
Lessons learned: do development and testing in virtual machines, and always do
hash checks against large files. :D
-jag
Code it, script it, automate it!
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