[NTLUG:Discuss] iso md5sum question

Wayne Walker wwalker at bybent.com
Sat Nov 8 16:43:37 CST 2008


On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:21:16PM -0600, Fred James wrote:
> All
> I downloaded ubcd411.zip, unzip'd it to ubcd411.iso and ran md5sum 
> against it ...
>     md5sum ubcd411.iso returned a number identical to the one posted on 
> the web site
>     md4sum --check ubcd411.iso returned this message ...

md5sum --check MD5SUM

--check takes an argument of a file fulle of md5sum output lines to match,
not the name of a file to test.

> "md5sum: ubcd411.iso: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found"
> 
> What am I looking at?  Thank you in advance for any help you may be able 
> to offer
> Regards
> Fred James
> 
> 
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