Re: [libreoffice-users] North American DVD 3.5.6

Hi :)
Wow!!  Thanks :)  That sounds reasonably easy and "do-able".  I have to pop out but hopefully Tim 
can let us know how it's gone if he gets time to try it out.  

many thanks and regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>
> To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2012, 16:23
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] North American DVD 3.5.6
>
> Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > That does sound hugely useful but please could you let us know the name of the utility you used? 
> >  If it was for a particular DE i'm sure we could work out the name for another DE if we need to. 
> >  Just knowing the name of 1 would help!
> >
> > Also any suggestions on how to use the utility?  If it's command-line only i think it's still 
> > possible even for us point&click users but we could use a little guidance.  Errr, i'm still not 
> > in the NA Dvd team but am still interested in how to generate an Md5sum.
> > Many thanks and regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> In Linux, it's called "md5sum".  As for Windows, Google on "Windows md5sum" to find utilities you 
> can download.
>
> Here's a list of the directory where I downloaded openSUSE:
>
> jknott@linux:~/download/suse/12_2 $ ls -l
> total 8903692
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jknott users        126 Sep 16 14:41 md5sum
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jknott users 4448059392 Sep 16 14:24 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-i586.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jknott users 4669308928 Sep 16 14:22 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
>
> The md5sum file contains:
>
> 26dd6c187f743f3af0cbb31eed138a07  openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
> 0373980cd6f270e1172067b86c044633  openSUSE-12.2-DVD-i586.iso
>
>
> If I run the command md5sum -c md5sum, I get:
>
> openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso: OK
> openSUSE-12.2-DVD-i586.iso: OK
>
> This shows both files match their md5sum.
>
>
> If I run the command md5sum openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso, I get:
>
> 26dd6c187f743f3af0cbb31eed138a07  openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso
>
> This matches the value from the web site, and shows the file is OK.
>
>
> The thing about md5sums is that a small change in the file results in a large change in the file's 
> md5sum.  This means that you don't have to check every character.  If a few at each end are 
> correct, then in all probability the file is OK.
>
> As I mentioned, disc burner software will generally display the md5sum of a file before you burn 
> the disc.  Just check that against the md5sum from the web site.  There may be graphical utilities 
> available, but I haven't had the need to use them as the command line utility is so easy to use.
>
>
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