Website for newbies

phantom_cyph · 04-23-2007, 07:31 PM

I have over some time written tutorials about installing various distributions and preparations needed for installing Linux. Also, I offer a service to people in the U.S. to ship pre-burned, tested CDs via the mail. I do not recommend this however, as Linux users need to be willing to do homework and troubleshooting, but this is a novelty I like to offer.

I hope you find my website useful!

osor · 04-23-2007, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by link removed

If you store your iso in your home directory, simply open a terminal and type (assuming you are not logged in as root) "sudo md5sum filename.iso".

I’m interested to hear why this is the case. The md5sum utility requires no special permissions…

phantom_cyph · 04-23-2007, 08:35 PM

the sudo part. You don't have to type sudo to use md5sum when you are root.

SlowCoder · 04-23-2007, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by osor

The md5sum utility requires no special permissions…

Same thought here.

phantom_cyph · 04-24-2007, 05:24 AM

OK-I have changed it to something clearer.

dasy2k1 · 04-24-2007, 12:03 PM

since when has md5sum required root permissions to run.
as long as you have r acsess you can get a md5 as a normal user

Code:

sdas@DanNew:/usr/bin> md5sum ./md5sum
08863c74019c8d446bc8e8a51e0999ad  ./md5sum
sdas@DanNew:/usr/bin>

look i can even Md5sum teh md5sum utilaty!
which i have r-x permission when im a normal user.

Code:

sdas@DanNew:/boot> md5sum ./vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default
c3f27655ab19e81b89d80f40c61b049b  ./vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default
sdas@DanNew:/boot>

md5 of my kernel, and i onlyhave r-- permisions

phantom_cyph · 04-24-2007, 12:48 PM

How many times do I have to explain that you only have to use sudo when you are not root. Some people like to run in root regularily, I am simply addressing those people as well. I know md5sum can be used without root access. Look at the website again, I changed the wording.

XavierP · 04-24-2007, 12:53 PM

And they're all saying that you don't need to use sudo at all. I just ran an md5sum like this:

Code:

ray@spinelli:~$ md5sum /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686
7bba80e34df0bad5796d3c576f2f6848  /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686

As you can see, I ran it from my home directory on my boot partition as my normal user account with no extra permissions or use of sudo.

What they are asking is what is your reason for insisting on having root access to check the checksum of a downloaded file?

phantom_cyph · 04-24-2007, 12:56 PM

I had to use sudo when I used Ubuntu 6.10, don't ask me why, thats the way it was. So, no, you do not have to be root (like I have said 3 times before), you do not have to use sudo depending on which distro you have and/or how your distro is set up.

XavierP · 04-24-2007, 01:06 PM

But your site says this:

Quote:

If you store your iso in your home directory, simply open a terminal and type "sudo md5sum filename.iso" (if you are root, do not use sudo).

Nowhere do you make it clear that you don't need sudo to do this. Particularly if you are in your home directory.

What about this:

Quote:

Firstly, download the iso file to your home directory (or any other directory you have read/write access to). Open a terminal and navigate to the download location using the

Code:

cd

command. Then run the checksum command

Code:

md5sum theisofilename.iso

You will need to compare the number you generate using this command against the md5sum number from the download site. If they match, you can burn the file to disk, if they don't match you will need to redownload the file.

Yes it's clunky, but it makes it clear what you need to do.

Mara · 04-24-2007, 03:49 PM

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