Jaunty Jackalope (RESOLVED)

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 3 02:50:02 UTC 2009


On 11/02/2009 06:42 PM, John Graddy wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:02 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> On 11/02/2009 03:51 PM, John Graddy wrote:
>> > Thanks to all who responded.  I now have what I need.  However, I do
>> > have a new question.
>> > 
>> > I have downloaded a release to one computer.  I did an MD5SUM and all is
>> > OK.  However, if I copy the iso file to a usb flash drive and move it to
>> > a different computer, I get a totally different md5sum on the file after
>> > I put it on the hard disk.
>> > 
>> > Is something getting changed in the transfer process that I'm using???
>> 
>> No. The md5sum will change when you transfer the iso.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> I'm continually impressed by the knowledge of folks on this list.
> 
> I didn't have a clue that the md5sum would change.  How do you learn
> about that kind of stuff??

>From this list :-) There was quite a discussion about this very issue
some time ago. I'll see if I can dig out the thread tomorrow.







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