Canonical failed to distribute Ubuntu 8.10 for AMD64

Today I just wanted to give Ubuntu 8.10 for AMD64 a try but when I downloaded the iso image, burned it on cd and tried installing it, I got a I/O error during setup so I re-downloaded the iso image but I got the same wrong md5 sum so again downloaded the iso from a different mirror and I again got the same wrong md5 sum :/.

Several other users also argued about it in the irc channel.

Perhaps they distributed a corrupt iso image to all mirrors? Or is it just because servers are on high load? But how does that explain that I always got the same wrong md5?

The wrong md5 sum is: f9cdb7e9ad85263dde17f8fc81a6305b

The correct md5 sum is: 82dc538278c54912f5b4f5da2bb9f17d577081d2

See you,

Andreas.