From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 16:59:34 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 EB73737B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [216.187.105.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A1643E5E for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (gldisater@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6NNxJL3075521; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:59:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: (from gldisater@localhost) by gldis.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6NNxIuA075520; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:59:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:59:18 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner To: Mark Hummel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Does CHECKSUM.MD5 Work? Message-ID: <20020723195918.A75394@constans.gldis.ca> References: <3D3DE84B.38C323AD@mchsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D3DE84B.38C323AD@mchsi.com>; from mhumm2@mchsi.com on Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:35:39PM -0500 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 On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:35:39PM -0500, Mark Hummel wrote: > Hi, > > I've just downloaded the ISO images for 4.6r and intend to burn the > complete 4 CD set this evening. I understand what a checksum is from my > old BBS days so I assume I somehow use CHECKSUM.MD5 to verify the > downloads. If this is correct, how do I do this? > > Please respond to my email address in addition to the mailing list. > Thank you > > Mark You read the CHECKSUM.MD5 file (it's plain text) and compare the md5 checksum stored there in with the md5 checksum of the file's you downloaded. -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message