+++ Bhaskar Dutta [07/09/03 18:45 -0000]: > Hi, > I just happened to finish downloading a 630 MB ISO image. Now > when I check the MD5 checksum of the image i had downloaded with > the original one, I get a different result!
What do you mean "by the original one"? Nevertheless, what did you use to download the ISO? Bittorrent seems to be the only one I can blindly trust for downloading perfectly .. last week I finished downloading the first three CDs of Redhat Linux 9.0 ...and for once I have ISOs with md5s that match the official checksums. Since writing to the CDs involves putting in extra CD data (lead in, lead out, etc.)..md5s of CD images once written will never match the original if you use something like "md5sum /dev/cdrom" to generate your MD5s. Thankgoodness RHL8 onwards have their own CD checking routine during the installation process ... Which ISO image did you download by any chance? The only way to verify your data after writing is that the individual binaries match the binaries in the ISO that you or anybody else have (once you have mounted the ISO on your filesystem)..Contact somebody else who has the same image and check with them. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://www.sandipb.net sandip at puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. http://www.puroga.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
