Paul; The ASC file contains the bit-count info for the 3 corresponding Mandrake CD's you downloaded. If you browse to the folder containing the downloaded Mandrake ISO files, and run the "md5sum" command on each ISO, the final output of each will be an alphanumeric code that equals the same numbers in the asc file. You can open the ASC file in any text editor to read them, and compare to the the ones you got from the md5sum output line. If the numbers are not the same, you'll have to download that particular ISO again, as your ISO was not completely or properly downloaded. If they match exactly you should be ready to burn the CD's.
You should open a shell as root, browse to the folder with the ISO files and run the command for each ISO as follows;
md5sum Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso
md5sum Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD2.i586.iso
md5sum Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD3.i586.iso
Each ISO will return the number I spoke of, and you can compare it with the corresponding number in the ASC file.
Thank you very much indeed, Lanman and Stephen!
Paul
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