Hi. HOWTOs below your tasks. On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:18:29AM EST, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > 1. I have the four iso files for SW 10.0 (thanks, Greg) plus the > associated md5 files. How do I verify the intactness of my > downloads? The man page seems to suggest I should have a command > called "md5" unless I am misreading it, but there ain't no such > animal on my system. Related to that, I will then burn a set of > CD's and will need to verify those burns as well. You are looking for the md5sum command. So do something like this: # md5sum slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso.md5 This will check whether the ISO has downloaded ok. > 2. There should be a way to "open" those iso files, copying or > converting them to the corresponding files and directories, > without first burning the CD's and then mounting and copying the > contents back in again. How would you do that, going directly > from an iso file to a directory structure on the HD? # mount -o loop /path/to/iso-file.iso /mount/point Then simply copy the files you need to whereever you want them, and unmount the ISO. hth Luke
