From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 0:35: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D3E37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80DF543E72 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7Q7Z6ve009094; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:35:06 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7Q7Z6Nc009093; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:35:06 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:35:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Razvan Sandu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A FAQ about FreeBSD download Message-ID: <20020826073506.GC8948@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <000601c24ccf$9c2fba30$0f05280a@connetro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000601c24ccf$9c2fba30$0f05280a@connetro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:10:07AM +0300, Razvan Sandu wrote: > Hello! > > Even if I've read the docs, I didn't find an answer to the following > question - which is almost a FAQ. Would you please help me ? > > Is there any way to verify the integrity of the FreeBSD .iso files BEFORE > actually burning 'em on CD (or AFTER, for verifying the CD)? I mean an > option similar to the "mediacheck" feature recently introduced in Red Hat's > install program... That's what they CHECKSUM.MD5 is for. It contains a md5 checksum of the related ISO's. Compare it with what you've got. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message