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On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 13:14 +0000, Neil Stone wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
> > alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Posted by "Alex Mclennan" <alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>
> >> hi all can someone help me,i am running ubuntu 6.10 and i want to load
> >> ubuntu7.10.i have downloaded the iso to desk top and then burnt direct to a
> >> disc using gnomebaker i have also tried to do on an xp machine using nero6.
> >> both time it burnt the disc fine,my problem is i cant load on the machine.i
> >> have put the disc in and restarted the machine it says boot from cd but then
> >> continues to load 6.10,am i doing something wrong.
> >> my machine has no name but has a p3 1.0ghz cpu with 778mb of ram with 32mb for
> >> graphics and has a 20gb laptop hd fitted{this is a very small desktop}.
> >> could any answers be simple as i am at the idiot stage in linux learning,
> >> thank you,alex
> >
> > Have you downloaded the md5 file and checked that the downloaded iso is
> > not corrupted in some way, you need the correct md5 for the iso you
> > downloaded then run md5 sum to check the, essentially it calculates the
> > checksum and compares it to the download iso.md5 file if they match then
> > no data loss happened during download.
> >
> > I can't remember the exact command offhand but I am sure someone here
> > can give you the correct one.
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> md5sum -c filename.md5
>
> something like that you mean ?
>
Also worth mentioning "MD5Summer"... it's a Windows GUI app for
generating/checking MD5 sums and their associated files.
-Grant.
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