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

Well, I downloaded ProMepis 3 times now and have yet to get the
checksums to match.  Doing it automatically or sight comparing them.  
Strange thing though is I changed the script to get the SimplyMepis
current iso's and when I downloaded that the checksums didn't match
either, trying it both ways.  I burnt the image to disk anyway and after
I download ProMepis I accidently checked the checksums of SimplyMepis
instead and they matched up now doing it the automatic way but not the
by sight way.  

Sigh.  I guess I have bad download mojo.  Going on near thirty downloads
now without a matching checksum except under a strange circumstance.

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x4433 
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