On Wednesday 20 September 2006 8:38 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
My friend is going to install scientific linux on his machine...he sent me this thing...
(ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/307/iso/x86_64).
File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc1.iso 636218 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc2.iso 656198 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc3.iso 655622 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.disc4.iso 671748 KB File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.md5sum 1 KB
The question is what is the last "File: SL.307.060906.x86_64.md5sum".
I would guess this is a text file containing the md5sums for the 4 iso files, to verify the download before you burn a bad image to create a bad cd. I believe you check it with md5sum <name of iso file> and verify the result with the last file. If they agree, burn with confidence. If the md5sum file is set up correctly, md5sum --check SL.307.060906.x86_64.md5sum Should check the above ISOs. I recently had a problem downloading a Debian ISO, and the first ISO would not download properly. I ended up downloading it on my system with ftp and I was able to get it to verify properly.
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Jerry Feldman