md5sums

[Tom Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 20:04, Michael Hipp wrote:
> If the isos don't match, you'd normally assume the download failed somehow.
> 
> But since you said Mepis, I remember a couple of weeks ago when I 
> grabbed their iso, the naming on the download site was somewhat 
> confusing. And what I downloaded didn't match the iso. But it was a file 
> naming problem and not a download problem.
> 
> Are you doing it the "automated" way by doing
> 
> mdtsum -c <md5sum file>
> 
> or manually by
> 
> md5sum whatever.iso
> 
> and hand comparing that to the md5sum file. If you're using the 
> automated way, it may merely be that the file name in the md5sum file 
> doesn't match the iso.
> 
> Otherwise, use 'wget' to get the iso. Wget will never let you down. Wget 
> is your friend. Don't leave home without it. I have some scripts (that I 
> think originally came from David Bandel) if you need them.
> 
> Michael

I am doing it the manual way and comparing them by sight.  Will try your
(David's) wget script.

Tom Wilson 
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