addr Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 (edited) My Mandriva 2009 live cd freezes. How can I check the md5 sum? I suspect a download problem but can't find a checksum. Edited October 13, 2008 by addr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 If it's KDE int the md5 sum is db8617b393a55926c04fd4ac772798ee Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addr Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Bad download then. Thanks Ken. Where did you find the checksum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 The checksum is normally in a file located with the ISO that you downloaded. You can download the ISO, and also download the md5sum file also to compare it later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addr Posted October 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2008 Well yes, that's what I've always done but I couldn't find it this time. http://www.mandriva.com/en/download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 After you select the country from the drop-down list don't click on the links you see rather copy the link and paste it in your address bar. This should take you to a page with all the available Mandriva iso's and md5sum's. You can correct the iso by using bittorrent. Grab the corresponding torrent from here: http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/ start the torrent, let it create the torrent folder then stop it. Next copy the corrupt iso to the folder the torrent created and in your bittorrent client force a recheck of the torrent. Only the missing corrupt pieces of the iso will be downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 You can correct the iso by using bittorrent. Grab the corresponding torrent from here: http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/ start the torrent, let it create the torrent folder then stop it. Next copy the corrupt iso to the folder the torrent created and in your bittorrent client force a recheck of the torrent. Only the missing corrupt pieces of the iso will be downloaded. I didn't know this; does it really work like that? That is a very neat trick if one has a broken DVD-image (or any other large file) downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Yep, one of the beauties or bittorrent. But it only works if there's a torrent of the same exact file you downloaded through ftp or http. That's a rare case but it is very applicable when it comes to Linux distribution isos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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