On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 18:54:44PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > There is an md5sum file that comes separate from the iso in the same > directory > That file fortunately was packaged with gzip > gunzip on it before you get access to the md5sum inside. That md5 file > and its corresponding iso were in the same directory when I ran the check > on the iso file itself. In your original e-mail I believe you said that you ran "--check" against the ".iso" file, and it produced a bunch of errors. My e-mail said to either run "--check" against the ".md5" file, or run against the ".iso" file without "--check". As far as I can tell, either of my suggestions is correct, and running "--check" against the ".iso" is not. I am looking at the webpage "http://vinuxproject.org/downloads";, which I assume is pretty authoritative as a source. The md5sum for the vinux-4.0 DVD for amd64 is right on the page ("2a5089976a0991aee516a14ff080b384"), as both plain viewable and as a link to a text file, which also contains that same md5sum (and, being only 58 bytes, would be silly to gzip). > If you do that without that md5sum file you have > no assurance you didn't get a corrupt file since md5sum has no independent > .md5 file to check against. The .md5 file is at the above site, and the md5sum value is presented there in plain text on the webpage. I typically just look at the md5sum on the downloads webpage when I download and subsequently check a large file. > The iso does not produce the result for md5 > you mentioned either. What's the output of this command: md5sum vinux-4.0-dvd-amd64.iso For your convenience, I made a local copy of the .iso and the .iso.md5 files. Feel free to get them, for a limited time, at www.blm.aegisinfosys.com/file (substituting "vinux-4.0-dvd-amd64.iso"/.md5 for "file"). -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list