md5 on a mac

[Matthew Flaschen]

Karsten Brenneman wrote:
> I have downloaded Ubuntu a number of times each file is exactly 698.8Mb
> (732,766,208 bytes).  i tried using disk utility to do that dm5 checksum
> but i am only able to do crc-32 and the result is always: Checksum of
> “ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386(2).iso” completed.
> CRC32 $8992FDF8

Well, CRC32 obviously isn't relevant.  Did you try following the
instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM#MD5SUM%20on%20Mac%20OS%20X
.  The simplest method given there is just to open Terminal, navigate to
the directory where you downloaded the image, and do:

md5 ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386(2).iso

Matt Flaschen