Thanks Lynn, It didn't work with my disk to, Or rather it did work by telling my that all my copies of disk two are off. (I'm getting an input / output error). Just to make sure I was doing it right I did a md5sum of disk one and got the correct responce. So I'm downloading a disk two right now. Again thanks. Carl P. On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 23:28, Lynn David Newton wrote: > > Carl> Okay *just* in case it IS my disks that are at > Carl> fault I want to grap another copy of disk 2. > Carl> Can anyone suggest where I can go and get it in > Carl> less than 6 hours? (I've got cox and ncftp). > > http://www.linuxiso.org/ has ISO images of all standard > distros and good throughput. That's where I got my RH > 7.2 images. > > Carl> OR can anyone tell me how to run a md5sum on > Carl> the disk image of a CD? other words if I have a > Carl> disk in /mnt/cdrom can I do a md5sum of the > Carl> whole mount point? > > You need to md5sum the device > > md5sum /dev/cdrom > > should do it for you, assuming /dev/cdrom points to the > device (i.e., it's probably a symlink to /dev/hdb or > /dev/hdc). > > -- > Lynn David Newton > Phoenix, AZ > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss