Comments on: LiveCD’s and MD5SUMS – A Tutorial http://bytesandsuch.com/2009/11/livecds-and-md5sums-a-tutorial/ reviews, tips, & comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:51:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: stlouisubntu http://bytesandsuch.com/2009/11/livecds-and-md5sums-a-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-154 stlouisubntu Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:50:24 +0000 http://bytesandsuch.com/2009/11/livecds-and-md5sums-a-tutorial/#comment-154 I agree with you and I prefer to use the md5sum command line utility. However, where I differ is that I do not want to have to manually compare md5 sums. Here's what I do: Using your favorite text editor (such as gedit, leafpad, kate?), make a one line text file as follows: copy and paste full md5sum filename.iso and save as .iso.md5 in the same directory as the .iso file (also note that there are two spaces between the md5sum and the filename. Then from the command line in the same directory as the .iso file and your new md5sum text file enter md5sum -c filenane.iso.md5 if successfully you get a message of .iso OK This eliminates human error in manually comparing md5sums. The most friendly .iso download sites include md5sum text files (so you will not need to make your own.) Ubuntu offers one big text file containing all the md5sums and filename.isos as one big text file from which to copy/cut and paste to easily make your own md5sum text file for the respective .iso you downloaded. Hope this helps. Cheers. (Please delete the first two posts as wordpress kept messing up my posts.) I agree with you and I prefer to use the md5sum command line utility. However, where I differ is that I do not want to have to manually compare md5 sums. Here’s what I do:

Using your favorite text editor (such as gedit, leafpad, kate?),
make a one line text file as follows:

copy and paste full md5sum filename.iso

and save as .iso.md5 in the same directory as the .iso file
(also note that there are two spaces between the md5sum and the filename. Then from the command line in the same directory as the .iso file and your new md5sum text file enter

md5sum -c filenane.iso.md5

if successfully you get a message of .iso OK

This eliminates human error in manually comparing md5sums. The most friendly .iso download sites include md5sum text files (so you will not need to make your own.) Ubuntu offers one big text file containing all the md5sums and filename.isos as one big text file from which to copy/cut and paste to easily make your own md5sum text file for the respective .iso you downloaded.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

(Please delete the first two posts as wordpress kept messing up my posts.)

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