On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 22:36, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2004 15:40, Nick Rout wrote: > > Well I tried that this afternoon. The iso came zipped, with only an > > md5sum for the zipped iso (so cannot check the iso itself once unzipped, > > or the finished cd) > I'm not so totally paranoid that I can't accept that the unzip process works > correctly 100%. So if the md5sum on the .zip archive is correct isn't > logical that the sum on the unzipped file is also correct? > Surely one could generate a md5sum off that and use it to test the CD?
yes true, but it'd be better if they published both. several people on the xandros forums got the same number as me for the unzipped iso so that is fine. I have cut two different cd's now, and on catting each to md5sum i get an i/o error at the end and a different md5sum (different to each other and the iso). The i/o error is not unusual - Volker has posted about it many times. Its to do with padding at the end of the iso. However the second cd installed fine. But it hangs on boot at "detecting hardware" further work required...
