i just mounted the downloaded iso as a filesystem and examined the
floppy images from within that, bypassing the need to burn a cd, the
md5sum for cdrom.img in /images/ still does not match. any ideas please,
i visited the mandrake website but there is no mention of this
bascule
bascule wrote:
>
> i just (took for ever actually) downloaded the two isos for 7.1, the
> md5sums check out for both, after burning using xcdroast and verifying
> the burnt image to be the same as the downloaded iso and double checking
> the md5sum of the iso to be sure, there is still a discrepency between
> the actual md5sum of the cdrom.img and the one quoted, this probably
> explains whay installing from a floppy made from this image falls over,
> but i can't see how this can be unless mandrake made an iso with a
> faulty floppy image in it.
>
> any ideas, suggestions?
>
> the version file in the root of the burnt cdrom reads 'Linux-Mandrake
> Helium 20000517'
>
> bascule
