Getting a good copy?

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Getting a good copy?

Postby dwhite » Jun 3rd, '12, 17:00

Finally I got good copy, well I hope it is, ( I was checking the m5 checksum you shouldn't install any copy that the Checksum is wrong )and I thought why haven't I got a utility that does it. It's really important for a Mageia-like organisation, never sending out CD's and DVD's. Anyway I got a duel CD the 2 days then the UUID was wrong and I couldn't keep my home partition, clean install was the only option. There is always something you haven't backed up.
Now I've assembled a GA 320M-H AMD Chip and an ASUS Geforce GT 710
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Re: Getting a good copy?

Postby dyfi » Jun 3rd, '12, 17:39

I have used and copied this script from another forum to enable md5sum with nautilus - it works in Mageia 2

#/bin/sh

IFS='
'
for i in ${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}; do
md5sum "$i"
done | zenity --text-info --title="md5sums" --width=800 --height=40

Save it in $HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ (create that directory if it doesn't exist) and make it executable. If you right click on a file you should find it in the "Scripts" submenu.

Hope it helps someone.
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Re: Getting a good copy?

Postby doktor5000 » Jun 3rd, '12, 20:38

dwhite wrote:Finally I got good copy, well I hope it is, ( I was checking the m5 checksum you shouldn't install any copy that the Checksum is wrong )and I thought why haven't I got a utility that does it. It's really important for a Mageia-like organisation, never sending out CD's and DVD's. Anyway I got a duel CD the 2 days then the UUID was wrong and I couldn't keep my home partition, clean install was the only option. There is always something you haven't backed up.


Sorry but, your posts are most often rather hard to understand clearly.

If you want to know about the md5sum issue, k3b f.ex. offers a really easy method to compare the md5sum of the image to one which has been copied to the clipboard.

But otherwise i don't know why you mention UUID, was that just a mistake and you meant md5sum/checksum? Also, you can always keep your /home partition, i don't understand that part. Please try to be more clear about your posts.
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Re: Getting a good copy?

Postby dwhite » Jun 4th, '12, 00:22

So there is one, a checksum utility I mean. The Checksum number base 16 is so long its easy to get out of sink, In my case I'm still not sure :?: .


The UIDD thing wasn't a mistake the install went flawlessly until a pop up window says wait. I waited then 2 or 3 minutes I installed an old disk Mandriva 2010 to back-up, install again and format clean install everything works

now Its now use bleating I'm using 2' what's lost is lost.
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Re: Getting a good copy?

Postby Ken-Bergen » Jun 4th, '12, 00:39

dwhite wrote:So there is one, a checksum utility I mean. The Checksum number base 16 is so long its easy to get out of sink, In my case I'm still not sure :?: .
That's why I use torrents as checksums are done on each chunk and there's seldom an issue.
I also do a manual check myself by opening a terminal in the download folder and doing
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md5sum -c *.md5
It will either return "OK" or "checksums differ".
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