Tips&Tricks md5sum in windows

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JeroenM

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Post Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:25 pm Post subject: md5sum in windows

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before you burn any isos to CD you must first check whether the download was good.

that's what a md5sum does.

 

these links point to some places where you can get an application to check your md5sum.

 

http://www.iay.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/threel...h/tools/md5.htm

http://www.acme-ids.org/downloads/windows/.../others/md5sum/

http://www.md5summer.org/

 

 

JeroenM

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Post Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject:

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also discussed at:

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5078

 

 

ramfree17

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Post Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 8:38 pm Post subject:

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to check the md5sum of an already burnt cd you could try

 

Code:

 $ cat /dev/cdrom | md5sum >> verify.md5

 

and manually check the resulting md5sum. this however requires two things:

 

1) a running linux system with md5sum. if you only have windows then one of those floppy-based distros would do it for you.

2) the correct cdrom /dev device. i have to adjust mine to /dev/hdd to make use of my slave CDROM drive.

 

ciao!

 

 

 

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