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List:       ubuntu-users
Subject:    Installation problems
From:       billy () silverbaseball ! com (Billy Pollifrone)
Date:       2006-02-06 16:06:47
Message-ID: 6c889d120602060806y4546c4d4m65281c1d4ebf82af () mail ! gmail ! com
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You will want to google for "md5 checksum utility windows" to find a freely
downloadable md5 executable that you will run in a command prompt giving the
iso file as an argument. Basically, it is a checksum that is improbable to
give a duplicate checksum given two different strings of characters. While
it would be common to do in Linux, since this utility is normally installed,
it is not something a Windows user would normally use and may not know
about. That is why some distros actually perform a step to do this for you.

Basically, the utility will return a checksum that is 32 characters in
length that should match the checksum the creator of the file says is the
correct one.

- Billy

On 2/6/06, AirCooled <aircooledmail-ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> please. I did open a .txt file named  md5sum, however, I had no idea what
> I was looking at, apperantly it was a list of everything in the boot file? I
> do not know what and where to check, as you suggest. If the file were
> corrupted, I would not know it unless it was clearly stated "This File is
> Corrupted"! Lol! Very new(3 days) at Linux, and have yet to use it! However,
> I have a relentless determination, so I refuse to give up.
>
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