linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Older Machines part 2

Friday, September 25, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Older Machines part 2

loyal_barber wrote:
> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "paw9230" <paw9230@...> wrote:
>> Hi all, my laptop gave out, <boohoo> so i tried to install Ubuntu9.4, no luck splash screen would freeze. I burned the iso to disk, several times. I read in another place, sorry don't remember where, it was stated that the downloads do not load properly?! it is best to purchase the live cd from cano(can't remember the name). Here's the funny part, the auto run would start after inserting the disk into my hubby's comp. how could that be? I have tried both the 32bit and 64bit. According to the HP website I have a 64bit AMD. One last thing to try is to reload windows(yuck) and then try to install Ubuntu.
>> BTW...Gary, Bruce and David, I still have a few of the older towers, just no place to work on them.
>> Thanks
>> Pat (formerly truckrwolf)
> Did you check the MD5 checksum on the download? That would be the
> first step. If you downloaded under Linux, do "man md5" to learn
> If under windows, Google for it and download. I
> found a free MD5 calculator for Windows somewhere back when I had
> machines that ran Windows.

No need to read the boring man page. The md5 command on Linux works like
this:
md5sum filename

on Windows give http://www.md5summer.org/ a try.
It is free and will do md5 and sha1 sums.

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John
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