[CS-FSLUG] Prayer request

xxx xxxx cyberdamon at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 12 09:36:46 CDT 2006


Thanks, I will try that.
If I download the file on windows box ( from another physical location with 
a faster net service) how do I check it?

Thanks,
Don


>From: "Stephen J. McCracken" <smccrack at hcjb.org.ec>
>Reply-To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users 
>Group."<christiansource at ofb.biz>
>To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users 
>Group."<christiansource at ofb.biz>
>Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Prayer request
>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:43:33 -0700
>
>veritosproject at gmail.com wrote:
> > They should be posted on the site somewhere, and all you have to do is
> > run "md5sum filename.iso" and compare the two numbers.  If they're the
> > same, then you're golden.  If not, then...redownload.
>
>In the same directory that you found the .iso file, there should be a
>.iso.md5 file which has the checksum for the .iso file.  Rather than
>trying to check things manually (visually) you can download both to the
>same directory and, in linux, change to that directory and run:
>
>"md5sum -c <filename>.iso.md5"
>
>This will compute the md5sum and check it against the known checksum.
>If it fails, you had a bad download.
>
>Use "man md5sum" for more information.
>
>On windows look for the digestIT program which does md5sums.
>
>sjm
>
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