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Old 04-11-2006, 09:42 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: Installation stops at 4th CD for SuSE 10.1

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Originally Posted by JGuru
@phreakOutt, You must first download the MD5SUM of the CD ISO files, after you
have finished downloading the CD ISO image files:

Checking the md5sum in Windows:


Download MD5SUM.exe from here
Put it in your Windows/System32 or /windows/command folder. (In XP it's C:/Windows/system32)

Now open up a command console by typing "cmd" into the run menu. (You can go to Start-->Run).
Before you start running the commands, make sure that the prompt says

C:\Documents and Settings\username>

Enter this command

cd \path\to\cd <dir>

Note: In Windows/MSDOS, you always type with the backslash (\) not the forwardslash (/). Example in M$: \blah\blah Example in Unix/Linux: /blah/blah
Now you are in the directory with the cd iso and md5sum.
Enter this command

md5sum -c filename.md5

(Replace "filename" with the name of the md5sum)

Make sure that when you download the CD iso to download the md5sum and place it in the same directory.

In Suse Linux there may be bugs that say that you are CD contents are OK, even though they are corrupt when checking!!
So the best way is to check the MD5SUM using the utility & burn the CD only if they are correct.
Thanks for guiding me on this, but I used a GUI based MD5 checker for that. It proved worthwhile as I checked with the rest of the ISOs. Yup! the 4th one's MD5 didn't match and the MD5 checkeer which I used was downloaded from this link http://www.softgears.com/download/MD5Checker.zip
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