From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 06:01:31 2003 Return-Path: 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 2D3B916A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A8343FCB for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h91CxWP19973 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:59:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200310011259.h91CxWP19973@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." In-Reply-To: <3F7A599F.2090906@daleco.biz> References: <20030930195831.AAA21222@lserver.cits.br@mailman.endymion.com> <3F7A599F.2090906@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:53:23 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD download [Known Spam URL in message-Probable Spam] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:01:31 -0000 On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:35, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > The second two files/ISO's you listed are > the "Mini" distribution CD, and the MD5 > (cryptographic) checksum. You'd use the > MD5 checksum to determine that the > files you download are complete and > legitimate, more or less. Take a look > at documentation around the net on > the subject of "checksums." Is the second ISO just some kind of rescue disk? I spent a couple days pulling that sucker down through a modem only find out that it doesn't seem to have any extra software on it. TIA Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net