[vox-tech] Debian Net Install Question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 06 Jan 05,  1:14 PM, Richard Harke <rharke at earthlink.net> said:
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:48, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:53:05 -0800
> >
> > "Robert G. Scofield" <rscofield at afes.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for your help.  I'm saving all these posts to put in my Linux
> > > binder.
> > >
> > > But here's a question.  What is the meaning of the message
> > > "sarge-i386-netinst.iso: OK" when I run "md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso
> > >
> > > | mdsum -c",  "sarge-i386-netinst.iso: OK"?
> >
> > Assuming you mean md5sum -c, it means that nobody edited
> > sarge-i386-netinst.iso betweent he first check (run by md5sum) and the
> > second check (run by md5sum -c)
> >
> > the -c option means it should take a list of files and md5sums which are
> > the output of a previous md5sum command and use that to check the
> > appropriately named files in the current directory.
>
> You should download the file with the checksum, not just note the checksum.
>
> Use the checksum file as input to md5sum with the -c option
> for example:
>        md5sum glarbfile.iso >checksumfile
> creates the checksum file
>        md5sum -c checksumfile
> verifies it.

What do you gain by checksumming individual files of a suspected badly
downloaded tarball versus checksumming the entire tarball?

Pete

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