From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 0: 4:47 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 11F4337B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dewey.paralynx.net (dewey.mindlink.net [204.174.16.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40A143E42 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@rcreighton.org) Received: from [198.69.4.139] (helo=comp1.rcreighton.org) by dewey.paralynx.net with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17XGCS-0001Kh-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:04:44 -0700 Received: from rcreighton.org (localhost.rcreighton.org [127.0.0.1]) by comp1.rcreighton.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6O74PYY001391; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@rcreighton.org) Message-ID: <3D3E5179.2050201@rcreighton.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:04:25 -0700 From: Randall Creighton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020630 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hummel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Does CHECKSUM.MD5 Work? References: <3D3DE84B.38C323AD@mchsi.com> <20020723195918.A75394@constans.gldis.ca> <3D3DF46A.F5E9660D@mchsi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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