md5sums

[Tom Wilson]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 15:34, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Tom Wilson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I truly don't know what could be going wrong. Just to try, I ran my 
> script exactly as posted (except changing 30k to 300k). Here's what I did:
> 
> $ ./wget.sh
> {about 2 hours elapsed, then}
> $ md5sum -c ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso.md5sum
> ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso: OK
> $
> 
> Perhaps you could post the exact steps you took.
> 
> Michael


The sames steps you listed above.  Changed the download speed to 300k,
./wget.sh, wait patiently,  do md5sum.  

Odd thing though now that I am back to work from a couple snow days and
an extended holiday weekend.  On a whim I went ahead and ran the md5sum
check on ProMEPIS again and this time it said it was OK.  Didn't change
a thing or download again.  Just ran the md5sum against it.  

tw124 at isadm2:~/scripts> !889
md5sum -c ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso.md5sum
ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso: OK

<shrug> I can't figure it out.  But I guess it is good now.  That is
similar to what I posted above about the SimplyMEPIS iso.

Thanks.

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x4433 
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