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Date:      Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:51:26 -0400
From:      Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>
To:        Robert C <rob33349@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: need help / please
Message-ID:  <4C35594E.3010608@buffalo.edu>
In-Reply-To: <646967.69003.qm@web59812.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
References:  <646967.69003.qm@web59812.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

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On 7/7/10 10:33 PM, Robert C wrote:
> hi,
> im new to freebsd and wanted to download it to try it out
> 
> so i downloaded from mirror FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
> then did 
> md5sum FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
> result was different then md5sum for this i386 iso 
> 
> root@rob-laptop:/home/rob/Downloads# md5sum FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
> e52f3bfc74d4ce44ac92003823b883dc  FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
> 
> 
> 
> the md5sum file listed the following 
> 
> MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-bootonly.iso) = f8ebd88798da2f161b33a2f714c0e125
> MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso) = fd77efeecd224298c6f3a08f239f294a
> MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-livefs.iso) = 9ec3b7901f377c643b8060b71c75ef25
> MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-memstick.img) = 916e2a13027b01b912f92a94a06e7c84
> MD5 (FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso) = 15f60953db9940551504193c4433c43f
> 
> 
> why are there two different md5sums did something get changed with download.
> 
> 
> thank you 
> please send reply to me at rob33349@yahoo.com

The number in the CHECKSUMS.MD5 file is for the un-gzip-ed file.  You
need to un-gzip what you downloaded (resulting in the file named
FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso) and then run md5 on that.

- -- 
						Ken Smith
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