On Saturday 06 April 2002 05:16 pm, you wrote: > Randy Kramer wrote: > > Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > > > A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before > > > the install is done. > > > > Point A raises a point -- AFAICT, the md5sum on a burned CDROM is > > different than the md5sum of the downloaded ISO (I've pretty well > > convinced myself of this). Even worse, the md5sum *may* differ > > depending on which software you use to burn it, and which options you > > choose. > > > > I have a page on WikiLearn dedicated to learning more about these > > points: > > > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning > > > > Look it over, and if you can contribute any data points or > > understanding, please feel free to do it yourself as it is a wiki, or > > write to the list or me and I will edit the page. > > > > Randy Kramer > > I found the most common md5 sum program for windows sucks. > > For me, MD5Summer * I kid not, thats its name* Just rocks ;p > > Newbie-stupid & works fast. It will even generate sums, b/c i cannot > figure out how to use the sums LM provides properly...and when I've > tried it fails. > > Shrugs. YMMV > > Femme Femme, for MD5SUM this is how I have used it for the .iso files and it should work for any type file this way: in a console : cd to the directory the files are in such as on a cdrom disk cd /mnt/cdrom then at the prompt type: md5sum nameoffile.i586.iso or whatever it could be "nameoffile.1mdk.i586.rpm" in any case once the file name is typed then hit enter and it will chug away for a while and then spit out the alpha numeric string 32 bit I believe that you can compare to what was shown on the download site . It has worked for me every time. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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