Hi, This is not quite on the topic of Mdk10, but close enough to be of interest to this thread.
Installing Fedora core 2 test 1 on my laptop proved to be impossible. It started having trouble reading the first CD, but seemed to get by. Then it stopped. Fail to read package (some name) Check CDs. the install process has an option to check install media. Which I promptly did, despite not having a clue what the check did. All CDs test fine. Maybe it is a heat problem I thought, and turned the laptop off. Came back next day, and it installed all of CD 1 just fine. It did have problems with CD 2, and failed on some other package. Took those CD's into work, where they installed just fine.. Time for a net install.. Trouble is, FC2 test 1 did not have a boot floppy designed for net install - it was based around CD install only. It turned out to be a bit of a mission in the end. here is what I did to install on that laptop. a)Do a very very minimal install. Which worked OK. b)Copy the isos to the hard drive, and loopback mount them. c)rpm -Uvh rpms that "looked useful". d)when it said, blah and blah required for those rpms, just repeat the above rpm line with required package. yep, a mission, and that box was never quite "right". However, some will argue, it was Fedora, so how could it have been right? Derek. ========================================================= On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > > on a linux box you rin, for example the command, > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gentoo $ md5sum gensmall.iso > > b2c244923a0ddf4b266fb2bf665f65ac gensmall.iso > > > > the number starting b2c244... is the mdksum of the file gensmall.iso. > > Just for the record, the "number" has letters in because it is in > hexadecimal, i.e. base 16, not base 10 like what we usually think. > Computers like to do things in powers of two. Base 10 is just too > arbitrary and needlessly complex. > > Just in case you want the above in decimal, here's what I copied from my > shell: > > >bc > bc 1.06 > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details type `warranty'. > ibase=16 > B2C244923A0DDF4B266FB2BF665F65AC > 237611279629402458412288808543663908268 > > > The line ibase=16 sets the input base. (use obase for output - defaults > to 10) > > Tip: I noticed bc doesn't like lower case hex. After I selected nick's > md5sum, and pasted it into the input of bc, Ctrl-A goes to the start of > line, then Alt-U to up-case the entire word. This works in normal (bash) > shell prompts as well as in bc (and emacs too, of course!). > > Todays CLI tip, > Carl. > > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
