-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 04 December 2003 8:11 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:50 am, Dan Gordon wrote: > >DG To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont > >DG remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper > >DG size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch > > of DG cheap cd's (dont buy cheap cd's they suck) and i had only three > > out of DG 20 that were any good. > >DG > >DG Regards, > >DG Dan Gordon > >DG
I always use "cheap" CD-R disks Dan. From the last spindle (100 disks, CDN$38.74 incl GST) all of the "700 MB" blanks I have used so far were between 825 and 913 MB available space. Not bad for generic "700 MB High Speed (Max 48X) CD-R Media." BTW; only one coaster but that was a result of PEBCAK. ie.: the loose nut on the keyboard syndrome. > Just md5sum <name of iso image> > > the resulting string of numbers should identically match whats posted on > Mandrakes' web site. When you download the ISOs also download the md5sums.asc file. Then use the command Ron posted but add a -c flag: md5sum -c <name of md5sums.asc file> to do a check against that "official" check file. It should check all the download disks. Do this before burning anything unless you don't have enough coasters already. <g> If you've already done the deed (burnt the disk without checking) put the disk in your regular read drive and use the following command to check. Assumes you have mkcd installed: mkcd --checkmd5 /dev/hdX where X is the drive with the install disk. You'll have to do that for each disk, the first method is faster, checks all disks, and wastes less blanks. (-; HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 21:57:16 up 13:05, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.08 This is a good time to punt work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zsSAZqvqlrLPr5YRAhDAAKCEMW5MBGYbHbJKKUS556HxtCqIDwCfYSbD D2/yZy/6NHJ/r1cst8mL9a4= =4sV3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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