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[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 13:49, Paul Howarth wrote:
>yahya wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> So i put the files under root/iso
>
>OK, so let's move them into your normal account's directory instead
> and then check them using your normal account.
>
>[yahya at dhcppc0 yahya]$ su
>Password: ******
>[yahya at dhcppc0 yahya]# mv /root/iso .
>[yahya at dhcppc0 yahya]# chown -R yahya:yahya iso
>[yahya at dhcppc0 yahya]# exit
>exit
>[yahya at dhcppc0 yahya]$ cd iso
>[yahya at dhcppc0 iso]$ md5sum *
>
>Then compare the long string of characters next to each filename
> with the long string of characters found next to the filename in
> the MD5SUM file in the directory on the website where you
> downloaded the ISO files from.
>
>Paul.

And why not just simplify the whole thing as long as he did download 
the MD5SUM file (note the capitals, required as linux is case 
sensitive) by cd'ing to the directory its all in, and doing a simple

md5sum -c MD5SUM

followed by an ENTER.  No quotes required.  It will probably report 
the dvd iso is missing if you didn't download that one, but of the 
files actually present, it will check and report the validity of all 
the files present.

Now, when burning the images, kde's k3b has an option you can turn on 
which will, once the disk has been burnt, redo the md5sums and 
compare them to assure that you have a good burn.  If you aren't 
using a recent copy of k3b to do the burning, you may be shooting 
yourself in the foot.  Here, it "just works".  As root of course.

-- 
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