From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 1:24:21 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 735AC37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay1.home.ro (home.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C62343E6E for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsandu@go.ro) Received: (qmail 27153 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2002 08:24:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO TEHNIC1) (62.231.64.23) by s1.go.ro with SMTP; 26 Aug 2002 08:24:15 -0000 Message-ID: <005801c24cd9$f72d98d0$0f05280a@connetro.com> Reply-To: "Razvan Sandu" From: "Razvan Sandu" To: "Jonathan Chen" , References: <000601c24ccf$9c2fba30$0f05280a@connetro.com> <20020826073506.GC8948@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: A FAQ about FreeBSD download Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:24:15 +0300 Organization: Home Office MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 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 ... Regards, Razvan ----- 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: > > Hello! > > > > Even if I've read the docs, I didn't find an answer to the following > > question - which is almost a FAQ. Would you please help me ? > > > > 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. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message