md5sum for the 9.3 pro 32-bit DVD???
Where's the md5sum for the 9.3 pro 32-bit DVD (i.e., the one from <http://www.interknet.net/bt/?torrent=suse93>)? -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live. -- Bradford Angier
ken wrote:
Where's the md5sum for the 9.3 pro 32-bit DVD (i.e., the one from <http://www.interknet.net/bt/?torrent=suse93>)?
As far as I know, there isn't one.
Ken, James, On Thursday 19 May 2005 14:38, James Knott wrote:
ken wrote:
Where's the md5sum for the 9.3 pro 32-bit DVD (i.e., the one from <http://www.interknet.net/bt/?torrent=suse93>)?
As far as I know, there isn't one.
Uh, huh... It is 979233e59de229a49d7e53fcfe0cf09e, as reported by YaST's Media Check module. Randall Schulz
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Ken, James,
On Thursday 19 May 2005 14:38, James Knott wrote:
ken wrote:
Where's the md5sum for the 9.3 pro 32-bit DVD (i.e., the one from <http://www.interknet.net/bt/?torrent=suse93>)?
As far as I know, there isn't one.
Uh, huh...
It is 979233e59de229a49d7e53fcfe0cf09e, as reported by YaST's Media Check module.
I was referring to an officially published md5sum, such as I used to download for the Red Hat ISOs. What happens, if someone changes the SuSE DVD and then releases it. What will the media check show? Will it flag it as being modified? Or will someone have to manually compare their value with someone's original? With Red Hat, I'd download the ISOs and md5sum file. Then I'd run the md5sum command against that md5sum file and it would tell me if the images were OK, corrupt or missing.
James, On Thursday 19 May 2005 15:59, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Ken, James,
On Thursday 19 May 2005 14:38, James Knott wrote:
ken wrote:
Where's the md5sum for the 9.3 pro 32-bit DVD (i.e., the one from <http://www.interknet.net/bt/?torrent=suse93>)?
As far as I know, there isn't one.
Uh, huh...
It is 979233e59de229a49d7e53fcfe0cf09e, as reported by YaST's Media Check module.
I was referring to an officially published md5sum, such as I used to download for the Red Hat ISOs.
What do you think that is? SuSE includes it in the disc in a way that the YaST validator module can read and then confirm it. It's used to verify the integrity of their distribution media.
What happens, if someone changes the SuSE DVD and then releases it. What will the media check show? Will it flag it as being modified?
It will show something else, but I assume you know that. Then you'll know that you don't have a genuine SuSE disc or an accurate copy of it. But what does it matter? There's nothing to compare a disc against except the value computed by the person who created it. The value I reported was computed by SuSE personnel. If the disc claims to be a bit-for-bit copy of the original SuSE distribution media, then that md5sum is still the one to use to verify the disc. If the disc is something else, no matter how much it has in common with the official 9.3 release, it's a different disc with a different checksum. If the author of that disc computed and published such a checksum, then verifying it will indicate only that the disc contents have not changed between the author and the verifier.
Or will someone have to manually compare their value with someone's original?
Which original? It's not the SuSE disc, then SuSE can't tell anyone what the md5sum will be.
With Red Hat, I'd download the ISOs and md5sum file. Then I'd run the md5sum command against that md5sum file and it would tell me if the images were OK, corrupt or missing.
This isn't a download from SuSE, it's a torrent. No one knows what it is and short of it bearing the same md5sum as an official SuSE-published disc, there's simply no way to establish confidence in what you're getting. Randall Schulz
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