ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 69, Issue 65

[terry]

On 05/05/2010 04:07 AM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> n Wednesday, May 05, 2010 03:54 PM, terry wrote:
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>> >  I think I was told by a respondent to the list if this MD5sum and an ISO
>> >  disk  image in the same location, maybe a download folder some thing
>> >  like this; md5sum  ubuntu xxxxxx   xxx.iso and I would get the hash of
>> >  the disc to compare with on line so I don't waste a cd if the hash is
>> >  incorrect? I've not had much success with it. More so with  openssl
>> >  dgst  - md5 /path to iso./
>> >  Also. I saw where I could do this to get the hashes from a burned disk
>> >  in the cdrom by md5sum /media/sr0 to see if the disc is ok.
>> >  Also, which technique is used  md5sum  or sha256sum?, which I found both
>> >  listed on the web sight?
>> >  Which one is ubuntu's preference?
>> >  Thank you.
>> >
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> Give it a bit of time to finish. Something like this in a terminal:
> >>  yes, this seems to work if you spell it correct  thank you
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> me at mycomputer:~$ md5sum osol-0906-x86.iso
> 86e19c89a30c9b91cbb096a758dea737  osol-0906-x86.iso
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