RE: md5sum doesn't match with BitTorrent

M A Young <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Don wrote:

> I have a question regarding these md5 sums....
>
> Is it redundant to check the md5 sums if you do a media check?
>
> When I use the CD's for the first time, I do a media check, but I never
> check the md5 sums...
> I figure if the sums are correct before creating my CD, that doesn't mean
> the CD gets created properly...

But if the md5 sums are wrong, it is pretty much guaranteed that the CD
won't be burned correctly, and finding this out at the media check means
you have wasted effort burning a CD that can't work.

	Michael Young


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