Thanks for your help, the first 2 cd's failed the test. Guess know that that now I know I can prevent this problem in the future.
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 00:39, stormjumper wrote: > hi joe, > > running md5sum on the little md5 file produces a checksum, > which isn't what you want to do. > > instead, you should be checking the md5sums of the iso files > against the given ones in the md5 file. > > the probably easier way to do that is to run > md5sum -c md5sums.91.asc > the more manual way is to run md5sum on the iso files, > md5sum Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso > then open md5sums.91.asc and check the values given > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Dennehy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 13:45 > Subject: [newbie] trouble installing mdk 9.1 > > > > I have a problem which I am hoping you good people can help me sort out. I > > am trying to install over mdk 9.0 (tried to upgrade first time with the > same > > problem) and it seems to stall a little under half way through (3 times > > now). At first I thought perhaps this was related to the heat problems I > > seem to be having with my burner, but I was able to reinstall 9.0 without > > this problem. I know (virtually) nothing about checking md5sums becasue I > > haven't ever encountered problems before. I ran md5sum on the file that > was > > in the same directory as the ISO's, and it gave me something (a hash > value?) > > which I do not no how to use. I used xcdroast to burn the ISO's and it > > didn't report any problems. Suggestions? > > > > TIA. > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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