From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 6 11: 6:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8DD37B401 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22709; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:06:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3BBF480A.AF44F54F@owt.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 11:06:02 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: One World Telecommunications X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Technical Information Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: verifying ISO files References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011006060850.018005d0@threespace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Technical Information wrote: > > Okay, so I've downloaded this tremendous ISO for FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, and I > want to know if the file I've got is the same one that everyone else has. > > How can I check the integrity of this file (signature or something like > that)? Please note that I am NOT running FreeBSD right now, so I'll need a > solution that can be exercised on Windows or Linux. My easy machines to do downloads are running W2K. When I finish the download, I use a program called md5 to check the list of checksums from the download site. I don't remember where I obtained md5. It was someplace like sourceforge or Simtel.net (http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/). You can enter md5 in the search field and it will return a number of choices. Kent > > Please copy me directly on replies. I don't subscirbe. > > Thanks, > Chip Morton > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message