From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 8:33: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37B137B6BF for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02659 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:32:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16524 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:30:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FYQ36O00.EG3; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:32:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3989915D.6AD20447@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:35:58 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to use checksum.md5 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I download the FreeBSD ISO image. I notice there is a checksum.md5 file > there. Can anyone tell me how to use it (which tools do I need)? Do I > absolutely need to do the check? Thanks. > The MD5 file is there to help you insure the file you downloaded is not corrupt. You don't have to do anything with it, although it is a good idea to check before you burn a CD with it. To check a file, type: md5 and compare the string it returns with the string listed in the file. They should match. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message