Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-22 Thread Niels de Vos
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/01/12 21:32, Adam Williamson wrote: That refers to the mediacheck installer option, which may default to on for some types of installation. It's presented as a selectable option right at the start of a

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On 22/01/12 11:49, Niels de Vos wrote: The mediacheck in the installer checks for the embedded md5-sum in the application-data field in the ISO-header. Anaconda used to contain the utilities that are now separately available in the isomd5sum package. You should be able to use this to check the

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-22 Thread Niels de Vos
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/01/12 11:49, Niels de Vos wrote: The mediacheck in the installer checks for the embedded md5-sum in the application-data field in the ISO-header. Anaconda used to contain the utilities that are now separately

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-22 Thread Richard
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:21:58PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: On 21/01/12 21:32, Adam Williamson wrote: That refers to the mediacheck installer option, which may default to on for some types of installation. It's presented as a selectable option right at the start of a media-based (i.e.

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On 22/01/12 12:34, Niels de Vos wrote: Yes, that is what mediacheck in the installer does. As an alternative you can use isomd5sum to read the burned media and check the md5sum without booting into the installer. The md5sum is created by reading the whole disc (except for the area where the

OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-21 Thread Frank Murphy
As far as I can tell there is no md5 embedded in the download.isos But not getting into too much detail, there is a user who is convinced there is. quote However there is an md5sum check somewhere in the installation cd /quote Can someone put me or the user right? -- Regards, Frank Murphy

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:50:26 +, FM (Frank) wrote: As far as I can tell there is no md5 embedded in the download.isos But not getting into too much detail, there is a user who is convinced there is. quote However there is an md5sum check somewhere in the installation cd /quote Can

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 21:47 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:50:26 +, FM (Frank) wrote: As far as I can tell there is no md5 embedded in the download.isos But not getting into too much detail, there is a user who is convinced there is. quote However there

Re: OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

2012-01-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On 21/01/12 21:32, Adam Williamson wrote: That refers to the mediacheck installer option, which may default to on for some types of installation. It's presented as a selectable option right at the start of a media-based (i.e. DVD) install - it asks if you want to verify the media or skip