Guest ndeb Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 Redhat-8.0 has this cool feature that the installer can verify the md5sum of the CDs which is really a great advantage. I wonder if mandrake 9.1 is going to do the same. It would save a lot of trouble for all users doing install from ISO/CD/DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 That would be a very good feature to have. Seems corrupt iso's and bad burns is the leading cause of installing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Its probably too late since mandrake-9.1 is already out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 It is, I missed that anouncement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 IUf you mean prm-verifying, that is done already as far as I know, for the cd's, just use the command: md5sum cdName. it gives the md5sum and you can check it with the file you find with the iso's. There is an option --check(for automatically comparison), but don't know the exact format for that. Anyway, this takes maybe one minute or less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 1 minute or less to check all 3 cd's, mostley your time to compare the strings. The checking takes a couple or seconds or so I believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 IUf you mean prm-verifying, that is done already as far as I know, for the cd's, just use the command: md5sum cdName.U got me wrong. I am talking of the mandrake installer itself verfyiing the CD/ISO before installation. You can use the command md5sum only if you have an existing linux install. Or you can use some equivalent utility in your existing MS windows install. What happens if you do not have any other OS installed ? Also, most newbies won't know how to do it (if they at all know that there is something called a checksum). This featrue is there is redhat-8.0 and its really a novel one (not even MS windows has this). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcdragon Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Theres a util on the cd for dos that will check the cd's apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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