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@dhcppc0 yahya]$ su >Password: ****** >[yahya@dhcppc0 yahya]# mv /root/iso . >[yahya@dhcppc0 yahya]# chown -R yahya:yahya iso >[yahya@dhcppc0 yahya]# exit >exit >[yahya@dhcppc0 yahya]$ cd iso >[yahya@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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
