MD5 checksum

[Soixante]

ok this is what i have-

ad3d50fe12c0672a7e4d32b466ab6851 Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso
a64fbcb98d6aa2cd4ac287e563593678 Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD2.i586.iso
bf7a7dad80cf3f41453d572d3ffed09b Mandrakelinux10.0-Official-Download-CD3.i586.iso

my question is how do i use this to check the validity of the iso??

I am totaly lost

Any help much appreciated

[Faustus]

You need a program to check it.

Start here: http://www.fastsum.com/

[Soixante]

thanks got the programme , might be posting again looking at how to set it up lol thanks any way

[Garibaldi]

You don't have to use the MD5 file unless your download got interrupted. Just burn the iso and see if it works. If it does your all good. Also, check your filesize against the app. filesize at mandrakelinux.com. I have burned several linux isos without checking the MD5 and they have been fine. Also, you may want to check out www.knoppix.net (its a live-cd distro).

[Soixante]

Thanks Garibaldi, i tested install and it worked fine,but out of interest i did check the filesize at mandrake and some of the ftp servers have different file sizes for these isos? also tried out the knoppix , Very Impressed

thanks

[Garibaldi]

Thanks Garibaldi, i tested install and it worked fine,but out of interest i did check the filesize at mandrake and some of the ftp servers have different file sizes for these isos? also tried out the knoppix , Very Impressed

There are a bunch of different distros of Mandrake, for instance there is something called MandrakeMove, which is a live-cd like knoppix. I am told that it isn't nearly as good as knoppix though. If you are interested here are a couple of links where you can checkout other live-cd distros, most of them are based on knoppix. One I would recommend is slax, found at www.slax.org .
Lists of Live-CDs:
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

[gspanos]

I'm not sure if this is the best place for this question, but it looks close enough. I'm a Mac user on Lion OS and need a MD5/checksum generator for blu-ray video files. The ones I've located (Checksum version 1.9 (1.9) and MD5) are quite limited; they only create checksums for specific individual files in the BDMV (Blu-Ray information file), and the files must be created one-at-a-time in a lengthy process. Before I upgraded to Lion, I was using Shorten to create checksums, but lost this ability because Lion doesn't support Power PC utilities.

So, my question is, can somebody point me to a decent MD5/checksum generator that works with BDMV files in Lion?