Md5sum is just a way of creating a "hash" for a file. It's like adding up all the columns in your check book, the total would be your hash, or "check sum". If the sum does match the rest of your accounts, then you've made a mistake somewhere.
In this case, something isn't adding up. Either the link from debian.co.nz to you has introduced errors into your downloaded file, or the file on the debian.co.nz mirror is not the same one that MDK has. Either way it's bad. Do the checksums for both images that you downloaded match? If they do then debian.co.nz is likely the problem. Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 June 2003 12:03 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: ISO question? > > > > Check that the md5sum on the file which you downloaded is correct > > making sure that you get the said md5sum from the Mandrake site. > > Thanks for your advice... I dloaded the md5sum from > ftp.debian.co.nz that was with the MDK9.1 > files. I googled > for what the heck to do with it, and ran "md5summer" over it. > It reported 1 error, and said the CRC checksum didn't match. > > Sorry for the dumb question now coming... What does this > mean? I have d/loaded mdk twice, not really amping to do so > again. Am I up excrement creek? > > Cheers! > Steve > > >
