[LAU] md5sum verification

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 25 May 2007 21:30, Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 21:17 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I downloaded Dynebolik, and this has put 2 files in the directory I
> > created for it.
> > dyne-2.4.2.iso
> > dyne-2.4.2.iso.md5
> >
> > I cd'd to the directory and ran md5sum, as below.
> >
> > [djmons at localhost djmons]$ cd Downloads/Dynebolik
> > [djmons at localhost Dynebolik]$ md5sum dyne-2.4.2.iso
> > 7526f6228ce60265f830304cd2275c7e  dyne-2.4.2.iso
> > [djmons at localhost Dynebolik]$
> >
> > Question! Is this verifying that the download is ok? It's providing the
> > md5sum, but is it verifying that the download of Dynebolik matches the
> > md5 sum file that was also downloaded.
>
> No, it computes the MD5 checksum for the file dyne-2.4.2.iso. To check
> that the file is OK, run 'md5sum -c dyne-2.4.2.iso.md5'.
>
>
> --ll

Thanks a lot Lars. I just got an OK from that.

Still got a problem though. I think the writer is knackered. It's only 3 years 
old with not much use. It will still play music cd's through the digital 
cable to the soundcard, but data cdroms are coming back as " no media". I 
could boot live cd's but these will no longer boot either. Perhaps it's the 
data cable, but as I've only been inside to clean out the dust from time to 
time, perhaps not.

Writer :
Sony CD-RW CRX230E

First step. Change the data cable. If no go replace the drive I suppose. There 
are multiple distros on this AiiiFriend machine, and all are replying with no 
media found. Hope it's not the controller on the mobo.

I don't know who suggested getting involved with computers. Probably me, and 
now I have to suffer the consequences.

Thanks for the md5 stuff.

Nigel.