[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

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

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 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

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 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 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 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
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

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 follows;