md5sum.exe is a program for windows that calculates the md5 sum of a downloaded file - this allows you to check the iso saved on your hard drive to make sure that it isn't corrupted. With a windows based cd program such as EZ-CD Creator, you have to create a disk from the image file... shrike-i386-disc1.iso et. al. Craig On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:21, Joe wrote: > I had no trouble downloading the isos onto my redhat 9 box and buring > cds with cdrecord - 3 of 3 with no coasters. > > I'm not sure what "md5sum.exe" is, but the "md5sum" program that comes > with linux works fine too. > > Perhaps there is a problem in your methodology and/or the tools you used. > > Joe > > Sherwin Dubren wrote: > > >Hi, > > I don't pretend to be a Unix guru, but I have used it to some extent > >in > >my 30 some years of professional programming. I had previously > >installed > >Red Hat 7.3 from a mirror site with no problems. Suddenly I see a new > >file type called 'iso' for downloading from several different mirror > >sites. The comments described them as file for 'Easy CD Creator'. I > >tried running my copy of md5sum.exe on the hard drive images, but got > >nothing but failures. I them looked for a fresh copy of md5sum.exe on > >Red Hat's site. They directed me to a page where I did not see the file > >md5sum.exe (deliberate maybe?). I browsed the net and found a 3rd party > >site where I was able to find a working md5sum.exe and all my files > >passed > >the checksum. > > The files are self extracting and they called my Easy CD Creator, > >version 5.x to burn them on my Plextor PX-w 2410A, the same drive I had > >used to burn Linux 7.3. Unfortunately, the transferred file came out as > >one big iso file. The the auto extraction, there was no opportunity to > >change settings, but I assumed Easy CD would adapt properly. I found a > >site 'www.petri.co.il' with a howto on writing iso files. They > >recommended either Easy CD Creator or Nero. I tried running it in Nero > >and there you are asked to specify and iso file transfer, and that > >option > >is defaulted to 'folders'. The Nero worked fine and I had 3 CDROMS's > >with > >the folder structure required for installation of Linux. They also > >mention that sometimes the hardware of the CDROM will not burn the iso's > >properly. My Plextor seemed to work just well enough to give me a > >working > >copy. I don't know why Red Hat switched to iso's (supposed to handle > >Unix > >long names better), but the older method in 7.3 worked just fine. It > >took > >a lot of digging to get the iso's to work, and the documentation for > >this > >is either missing or scattered around various sites, including Red Hat. > >I think Red Hat just wants to make life difficult, so people will buy > >their install package, although not seeing it, it could be just as > >confusing as the downloaded version. > > On another topic, which is somewhat off topic for this forum, I had > >trouble installing the LILO on my Windows 2000 machine so that I could > >do > >a dual boot to both Windows and Linux, the later using a boot loader on > >my Linux partition. The graphical loader interface gives you all kinds > >of > >options to configure the boot loader, including updating (my case as an > >update to my 7.3), leaving unchanged, or installing either LILO or their > >new boot loader GRUB. I tried all the options, but couldn't get the > >Windows loader to get me into LINUX. It's a good thing I have a friend > >who has had recent Unix experience with boot loaders having this same > >problem. I scoured the Howto's and Docs with no answers, but he had a > >solution which involved creating a bootsect.lnx file in Linux and > >copying > >it to the bootsect.lnx file on Windows in the C: folder. > > Red Hat has a long way to go to making their installers work and > >properly documenting these new versions. > > > > Sherwin Dubren > > > >which automatically call up Easy CD. > > > > > > > > > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
