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   Message 136,976 of 138,051   
   William Unruh to kant@have.it   
   Re: ISO checksum differences   
   10 Jun 20 03:33:21   
   
   From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2020-06-10, Sidney_Kotic  wrote:   
   > On 6/9/20 3:44 PM, PaulRS wrote:   
   >> In downloading "Tumbleweed" the MD5 checksum is different and much   
   >> shorter than the much longer published checksum at the DVD iso   
   >> download site.  How is the Downloaded iso to be checked?   
   >>   
   >   
   > sha256sum -c nameofchecksumfile   
      
   That won't do much good if he onlyhas the md5 checksum. But if he has   
   the sha256 checksum (as well) then yours will work.   
   Note in my comment it should have been md5sum -c name.of.file.co   
   taining.checksum   
   >   
   > It should then say...   
   > nameofisofile: OK   
      
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