Thanks Chad,
I was only repeating what my college Linux professor told me.
Happy Hoolidays,
Joan
Chad Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joan Leach wrote:
> As to problems booting some Linux Live CDS, did you check the MD5 text file?
> Don't forget not to rename what you downloaded as it can change the MD5
> checksum.
Given what I know about how MD5 hashes work, I'm going to say that this
is not true. MD5 works on the content of the file. The file name is
not stored in the file, therefore it doesn't alter its content.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ md5sum Attachment.pdf
9f63ebcebcd7c4f7cf4686f75d1774a1 Attachment.pdf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mv Attachment.pdf temp.pdf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ md5sum temp.pdf
9f63ebcebcd7c4f7cf4686f75d1774a1 temp.pdf
Chad Martin
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