Re: md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-16 Thread Marvin Dickens
This confuses me. How can you rely on an md5sum check from the Redhat disc during install? How do you know that part of the disc isn't bad to start with? I noticed this too when I downloaded the images so I could start on the rpm failure thing. I believe it to be some kind of funky horn dog

md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-15 Thread Tim Wunder
OK, I'm puzzled by this. Can anyone explain? I installed RH8 from ISOs I downloaded. I verified each ISO file and they were all good. I then burned CD's 1, 2 and 3 to CDR and attempted to verify them in the following ways: 1. Performed 'diff /dev/cdrom /path/to/downloaded.iso' 2. Performed

Re: md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-15 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: OK, I'm puzzled by this. Can anyone explain? I installed RH8 from ISOs I downloaded. I verified each ISO file and they were all good. I then burned CD's 1, 2 and 3 to CDR and attempted to verify them in the following ways: 1. Performed 'diff

Re: md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-15 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 20:34, Keith Morse wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: snip So, I decided to try the disks anyway to see what would happen. As it turns out, RedHat provides a disk check at the beginning of the install process. I put each of the 3 disks thru redhat's

Re: md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-15 Thread kwall
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:56:13PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 20:34, Keith Morse wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: snip So, I decided to try the disks anyway to see what would happen. As it turns out, RedHat provides a disk check at the beginning of

Re: md5sum, ISO files and Redhat 8

2002-10-15 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:07:49 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:56:13PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 20:34, Keith Morse wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: snip So, I decided to try the disks anyway to see what would happen. As