From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 2: 3:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9622F37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74C8243E4A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 4888 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2002 09:03:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 26 Aug 2002 09:03:30 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 49C0E77; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:03:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:03:29 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Razvan Sandu Cc: Jonathan Chen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A FAQ about FreeBSD download Message-ID: <20020826090329.GS21595@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Razvan Sandu , Jonathan Chen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000601c24ccf$9c2fba30$0f05280a@connetro.com> <20020826073506.GC8948@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <005801c24cd9$f72d98d0$0f05280a@connetro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005801c24cd9$f72d98d0$0f05280a@connetro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Razvan Sandu" > To: "Jonathan Chen" , > Subject: Re: A FAQ about FreeBSD download > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:15 +0300 Razvan, please, don't top-post. Also, I'm sure you're used to it (I know I was when I was using windows), but could you please do something about your mail client mutilating quoted text? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Chen" > To: "Razvan Sandu" > Cc: > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:35 AM > Subject: Re: A FAQ about FreeBSD download > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:10:07AM +0300, Razvan Sandu wrote: > > > Is there any way to verify the integrity of the FreeBSD .iso files > > > BEFORE actually burning 'em on CD (or AFTER, for verifying the > > > CD)? I mean an option similar to the "mediacheck" feature recently > > > introduced in Red Hat's install program... > > > > That's what they CHECKSUM.MD5 is for. It contains a md5 checksum of > > the related ISO's. Compare it with what you've got. > Please excuse my ignorance on this subject, but would you please > explain how should I do that, exactly ? On Linux, I usually use rpms > and the check is done automatically ... % (md5 file.iso | diff CHECKSUM.MD5 -) || echo "doesn't match" this assumes the .MD5 file contains a single checksum. -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 10:53AM up 5 days, 16:46, 13 users, load averages: 2.23, 0.72, 0.26 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message