7.1-RELEASE -"how to" in Windows?

[czahor]

Hello

I've just downloaded a 7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz from this site.

I want to install it on VirtualPC in Windows to test purposes.


But when i open this file (*.gz) with WinRAR I can see the content (one *.ISO file) but i can't extract it.

I get a CRC error (unexpected end of file).

Maybe i need to download a checksum file or other files? Or maybe this file is damaged?

plese give me advice

[mfaridi]

try use 7zip

[ale]

I think that the file is damaged because AFAIK winrar should handle gzipped files.
The md5 checksum of the .iso.gz file should be 7d56d43359d7b7e05c0d450bafb4c8fa and the size in bytes 1895702133.
Once extracted you can compare it with the values in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/CHECKSUM.MD5

[czahor]

ok i thnink this file is damaged on the server because its downloading process stops at about 890MB.


Can somebody check it?

regards

[ale]

Why don't you try with a different mirror?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-PRIMARY-FTP