hi, i posted the follwing two messages to 'newbie' but got no reply, i'm hoping for a suggestion here as i'm stumped: ....................................... Subject: i just (took for ever actually) downloaded the two isos for 7.1, the md5sums check out for both, after burning using xcdroast and verifying the burnt image to be the same as the downloaded iso and double checking the md5sum of the iso to be sure, there is still a discrepency between the actual md5sum of the cdrom.img and the one quoted, this probably explains whay installing from a floppy made from this image falls over, but i can't see how this can be unless mandrake made an iso with a faulty floppy image in it. any ideas, suggestions? the version file in the root of the burnt cdrom reads 'Linux-Mandrake Helium 20000517' ........................................... i just mounted the downloaded iso as a filesystem and examined the floppy images from within that, bypassing the need to burn a cd, the md5sum for cdrom.img in /images/ still does not match. any ideas please, i visited the mandrake website but there is no mention of this ......................................... anyone got an idea that might not involve downloading again? am i missing something obvious? bascule
