Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 14 March 2004 06:18 am, Alaa The Great wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:37:35 -0500 > > Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should open a shell as root, browse to the folder with > > the ISO files and run the command for each ISO as

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Lanman
Paul Smith wrote: I don't think root is needed for such a simple operation. SSSH! Don't tell him that! It's our secret, OK? Grin! It is nice to learn that in this community one can meet humorous people! Paul Dude! In my life, it's the only version of stress management that works! No sur

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
I don't think root is needed for such a simple operation. SSSH! Don't tell him that! It's our secret, OK? Grin! It is nice to learn that in this community one can meet humorous people! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Lanman
Alaa The Great wrote: I don't think root is needed for such a simple operation. cheers, Alaa - -- SSSH! Don't tell him that! It's our secret, OK? Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:37:35 -0500 Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should open a shell as root, browse to the folder with the ISO > files and run the command for each ISO as follows; I don't think root is needed for such a simple operation

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Reynolds
Paul Smith wrote: Thank you very much indeed, Lanman and Stephen! Paul I can't claim the credit, I wondered what those files were, so I googled and found the information here: http://www.linuxiso.org/ SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
Paul; The ASC file contains the bit-count info for the 3 corresponding Mandrake CD's you downloaded. If you browse to the folder containing the downloaded Mandrake ISO files, and run the "md5sum" command on each ISO, the final output of each will be an alphanumeric code that equals the same nu

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Lanman
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am downloading Mandrake 10. On the site where from I am doing the download, I find the following file: Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc Could somebody here please explain me what for it is this file? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Paul; The

Re: [newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Reynolds
MD5 Sums are 32 byte character strings that are the result of running the MD5 sum program against a particular file. Since any difference between two files results in two different strings, MD5's can be used to determine that the file or iso you downloaded is a bit-for-bit copy of the remote fi

[newbie] md5sums file

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am downloading Mandrake 10. On the site where from I am doing the download, I find the following file: Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc Could somebody here please explain me what for it is this file? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Servi

[newbie] md5sums for 9.1 for those that need it

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Greenwood
6f1581974e12420fef87868ed6caa31f MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD1.i586.iso 87afe11ddef6b619866322aa0797e45f MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD2.i586.iso ff187c7a552722f42790b5726fdb62b3 MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD3.i586.iso Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] MD5SUMS

2002-10-24 Thread John Richard Smith
If, md5sum psyche-i386-disc1.iso returns, b087f9c628bfb5e2c69b05424c65b731 psyche-i386-disc1.iso does it mean it has failed, when, d7b16b081c20708dc0dd7d41793a4177 psyche-i386-disc1.iso is the key supplied. Ought not there to be some explanation ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] md5sums & WinXP (Thnx ppl!)

2002-09-30 Thread Angus Auld
Thank you all for the help! And thanks Bela for the program! This list is super! Makes learning fun and "easy." --Angus "This is the Earth School..always in session. Now is the right time to learn, and teach."--A.A. -- __ Dow

Re: [newbie] md5sums & WinXP

2002-09-30 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello Angus, Monday, September 30, 2002, 9:50:36 PM, you wrote: AA> Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) AA> My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? put md5sum.exe in the same dir as the iso a

Re: [newbie] md5sums & WinXP

2002-09-30 Thread Bela Markus
Go to http://www.md5summer.org/download.html site to download a WIN version. - Original Message - From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: [newbie] md5sums & WinXP > Hi all, I am g

Re: [newbie] md5sums & WinXP

2002-09-30 Thread Jure Repinc
Angus Auld wrote: > Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the >cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) > > My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? > > Many TIA's. Use MD5Summer: http://www.md5summer.org/ -- Live long and prosper!

[newbie] md5sums & WinXP

2002-09-30 Thread Angus Auld
Hi all, I am going to download Mdk 9, but I have to use a WinXP box to do it and the cd burning. ( I don't have broadband ) My question is, how to check md5sums on a WinXP box? Many TIA's. --Angus "Live for today...but with a hope for tomorrow."--A.A. Reg. Linux User #278931 --

Re: [newbie] md5sums.9.0

2002-09-28 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 12:45, s wrote: > On Friday 27 September 2002 09:33 pm, Brian Parish wrote: > > OK, got the ISO's. Now before I burn them I'd like to check them > > with > > > > md5sum -c md5sums.9.0 > > > > The mirror I got the ISO's from doesn't have md5sums.9.0 and every > > other mirror

Re: [newbie] md5sums.9.0

2002-09-27 Thread Jim Fazio
Here's what I used. f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso 05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e2f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b99f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso Jim F On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 21:33, Brian Parish wrote: > > OK, got the ISO's. Now bef

Re: [newbie] md5sums

2001-10-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:34:53 +0200, "Robert MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type > check thing? if so how do i use it? > > Thanx > > Robert Yes. It uses checksumming to verify the integrity of your files. Put it in the

Re: [newbie] md5sums

2001-10-04 Thread Fred Schroeder
Robert, at the command promt type: md5sum filename where filename is the name of the downloaded file you wish to check. This will spit out a character string, which should match what is in the md5sums file, which is a text file. hope I helped, and didn't confuse! Fred At 05:34 PM 10/4/0

RE: [newbie] md5sums

2001-10-04 Thread Ingo Bauer
Good afternoon Robert; You can find the list of sites providing 8.1 iso's @ http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#586 Ingo -Original Message- From: Robert MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] md

[newbie] md5sums

2001-10-04 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi I'm assuming that the md5sum file with the m8.1 iso's is a crc type check thing? if so how do i use it? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs

2001-05-26 Thread Kelley Terry
To check the md5sums on the iso: md5sum mandrake80-inst.iso md5sum mandrake80-ext.iso To chect the md5sums on the burned cd: md5sum /dev/cdrom The dev(ice) in the above statement can be determined by looking at the /etc/fstab file to see where the cd reader is mounted. -- "It said uses Wind

Re: [newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs

2001-05-26 Thread victor sosa
i have the same problem, but when DRAKX try copy the file system to hard drive --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > I downloaded the L-M8 ISOs today, burned them to CD, > and tried > to install. It keeps freezing just after the first > screen with the > (enter> or choices. I'm guessing, > acco

[newbie] md5sums checking downloaded ISOs

2001-05-26 Thread lauritzen
I downloaded the L-M8 ISOs today, burned them to CD, and tried to install. It keeps freezing just after the first screen with the (enter> or choices. I'm guessing, according to my research of similar reports of these symtoms in the newsgroups, the ISOs are corrupted. Somewhere I saw online

Re: [newbie] MD5SUMS

2001-04-23 Thread s
Yeah it was very helpful. Thank you, very much. -s On Monday 23 April 2001 07:12 am, you wrote: > s, > > It sounds like there is a good chance you have a bad iso (because of > your problems with reinstalling). > > When I downloaded mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso, there was another file > named m

Re: [newbie] MD5SUMS

2001-04-23 Thread Randy Kramer
s, It sounds like there is a good chance you have a bad iso (because of your problems with reinstalling). When I downloaded mandrakefreq-i586-20010316.iso, there was another file named mandrakefreq.md5sum. That second file is a text file containing the md5sum for the iso. Run the command md5su

Re: [newbie] MD5SUMS

2001-04-22 Thread s
I'm glad someone else asked about this. :-) I ran this last night before install, I didn't get errors or warnings, but the numbers (output) didn't match. I typed: /usr/bin/md5sum * in the directory where I downloaded them and got three long numbers for the files (inst-iso, ext-iso, md5sum).

Re: [newbie] MD5SUMS

2001-04-22 Thread Randy Kramer
Dwight, I don't think anyone else responded, so I'll take a stab at it. Are you concerned about whether the file containing the md5sums is authentic, or about whether the md5sum of the iso you downloaded is correct (matches the md5sum in the text file you are talking about)? The second is simpl

[newbie] MD5SUMS

2001-04-20 Thread Dwight
Ok, this file appears to be a text file, and it says it is sums for ISO's to ensure they are all correct. The only problem is I haven't been able to find out how you test it to verify this string. Anyone got that info? Take Care, Dwight Daynotes, Columns, Tips, message boards, we try to give you

Re: [newbie] md5sums

2000-12-20 Thread Dale Kosan
Yes,go to this site and download the program.    http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/

[newbie] md5sums

2000-12-20 Thread Charles E. Patterson
Hello, I have downloaded the ISO files for 7.2.  I would like to verify that the md5sums code is correct on the ISO files. Is there a program available that I can run under Windows/98 to do this verification. Thanks, Charlie Patterson