[TriLUG] Mandrake frustrations

Scott G. Hall ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net
Mon Dec 27 14:47:47 EST 2004


On 12/27/04 12:01 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> Just for giggles I checked the md5sums on my files.  I downloaded the
> isos from
> 
> http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586/
> 
> md5sums and other mirrors are here:
> 
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
> 
> According to the page, the 3-iso-cd download (which I got) has the
> following checksums:
> 
> 7833f17c3fbe95581c48cf3848792d21 Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso
> 5850545e8fa3f63323a90b1403ec5064 Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD2.i586.iso
> 029f660c78e29427f775a54284fb7085 Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD3.i586.iso
> 
> When I dumped the above to a file, ran md5sum <iso> >>mysums.txt,
> cleaned up extra spaces, and diffed the two files, the result was
> identical (implies my isos have the proper checksums).
> 
> William
> 

You also want to check the md5 sums of the resulting burned images.
Just mount each CD and run md5 on the mount point.

More than once I have good downloaded ISO's and ended with bad burned
discs.  If your burned discs are consistently bad, try dropping the
burn speed down, or try a different batch of discs.

If you creating your own ISO's (say for backups or such), it is always
a good idea to compare md5 sums between the ISO files and resulting
burned discs.

--
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net



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