Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:04:25 -0700 From: Randall Creighton <randy@rcreighton.org> To: Mark Hummel <mhumm2@mchsi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Does CHECKSUM.MD5 Work? Message-ID: <3D3E5179.2050201@rcreighton.org> References: <3D3DE84B.38C323AD@mchsi.com> <20020723195918.A75394@constans.gldis.ca> <3D3DF46A.F5E9660D@mchsi.com>
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You need to md5 the *.iso, in other words, the image files you downloaded before you burn them. Compare those to the checksums from the ftp site. Randy Mark Hummel wrote: >Jeremy, > >Thanks for the quick response. I downloaded the *.ISO files. Then I burned the >first CD from the image file. The root directory of the CD has no CHECKSUM.MD5 >file, but there are many of these files within several of the directories none of >which even come close to matching the CHECKSUM.MD5 file on the ftp site which I >printed to compare. What exactly am I missing? > >Mark > >Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > > > >>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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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