Newbie Install Question - downloading and burning the install CDs, p2p

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:58:23 -0600, Tab Gilbert <tabbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > so i guess the direction is do (try) the method above against the disk
> > and then try a "traditional" burn.
> 
> gives me-
> 
> tab at ubuntutab:~ $ md5sum -c /media/cdrom0/md5sum.txt
> md5sum: can't open ./dists/hoary/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages
> md5sum: can't open ./dists/hoary/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> ...
> md5sum: no files checked

First cd to the directory with the md5sum in it -- using your example:

cd /media/cdrom0/
md5sum -c md5sum.txt