Forget Hardy
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Jun 12 18:57:07 UTC 2008
Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:30:09 -0400
>> Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just in case, and since it only takes a few minutes to do, run the MD5
>>> sum against your .iso image and compare it to the website's stated MD5.
>>>
>> I've just been trying to find these. They're rather cunningly hidden, apparently.
>>
>> Searches on ubuntu.com for 'md5' 'md5sum' 'checksum' 'checksums' and 'md5s' yielded nothing.
>>
>> Though I never seem to find what I'm after first time there, anyway. Difference of intuition, I imagine.
>>
>>
>
> It's not as obvious as it should be, probably to keep from confusing new
> users I'd imagine. But it's at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
>
> From the download page, there's a line telling you how to verify your
> image, and the link is the one I put up above.
>
>
>
Thank you Bart. I went to that page and ran the test and my .iso
file is correct. That doen't mean it all got on the cd-rom but I saw no
errors or unusual things when I recorded it. And it runs fine. It boots
and lets you install, but it never completes.
Karl
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