On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:18 pm, Dad wrote: > Where do I find the check sums on the CDs I burned from downloading. > I burned at 1/2 media speed. > Are there often problems downloading/burning which could cause the flaky > 9.1 version I have? > I tried 9.1, but no kppp to connect to internet, and other weird > problems,so I went back to my 8.2 powerpak. > Keith if you go to console and put the CD in a CDROM then navigate to the CDROM as in cd /mnt/cdrom>then type md5sums Mandrake-linux.rpm.iso.xxx (or whatever the iso name is) and hit enter, it will return the string for that .iso. Compare that with what is on the mirrors or others have provided here and all characters should match. If not, it's a bad burn or d/l. Rats, this is as close as I can recall without doing it and I have no .iso file or CD handy. Somebody jump in here and varify or add to get it right. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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