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Vincent Weber
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Hello,
First of all I must warn you that this is probably the most newbisch question you shall ever encounter on this forum, but the Gentoo handbook said that they don't eat people over here so I decided to give it a try. I am not sure if I am at the right adress on the internet for this question, so excuse me if I am wrong.
Here is the deal: I downloaded the ´packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.ISO´. The Gentoo Handbook (1.2.3: Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Universal
Installation CD) recommends me to check if the ISO is corrupted or not. This can be done by a executable file called md5sum (http://www.etree.org/md5com.html). I followed the instructions on the website for a windows environnement, but there are no instructions for Windows XP. I tried following the Windows NT/2000 instructions: | Quote: | Windows NT/2000: Download md5sum.exe to your c:\winnt\system32
Open an MS-DOS window and go to the directory of the show you want to check. When you are in that directory, type: | Code: | | md5sum -c [filename].md5 |
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There is no c:\winnt\system32 directory on my HD  I have also never had any experience with DOS in my life  Can somebody help me out? Thank you for your time.
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Hi Vincent Weber.
I will try not to bite!  The DOS they're refering to, is the command prompt that you have on Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt. You can also open it with Start + R and running command.com.
If you don't have c:\winnt, check if you have c:\windows. If not, in what disk did you install Windows XP?
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Vincent Weber
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@jmbsvicetto: I have one harddisk in my computer with one partition (c:\). I do have a windows folder, but c:\winnt\system32 does not exist.
1) Where should I place md5sum.exe?
2) Where should I place packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.iso?
3) How do I browse in the command prompt? (entering something like does not work)
I run Windows XP Profesional SP2 build 2600
Thanks you for your help.
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| Vincent Weber wrote: | @jmbsvicetto: I have one harddisk in my computer with one partition (c:\). I do have a windows folder, but c:\winnt\system32 does not exist.
1) Where should I place md5sum.exe?
2) Where should I place packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.iso?
3) How do I browse in the command prompt? (entering something like does not work)
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I don't think it matters too much where you put the md5sum.exe.
You can change directories with the cd command: cd c:\map\map
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Vincent Weber
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| nixnut wrote: | I don't think it matters too much where you put the md5sum.exe.
You can change directories with the cd command: cd c:\map\map |
I placed the ISO and md5sum.exe in c:\
The prompt history:
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Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\VINCENT>cd c:\
C:\>md5sum -c packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.md5
MD5SUM: packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.md5: No such file or directory
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http://www.etree.org/md5com.html told me this:
| Quote: | *Windows 95/98/Me: Download md5sum.exe to c:\windows\command
*Windows NT/2000: Download md5sum.exe to your c:\winnt\system32 |
They say nothing about Windows XP. Should I try to put it in a directory like C:\WINDOWS\system32\ ?
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| Vincent Weber wrote: | | nixnut wrote: | I don't think it matters too much where you put the md5sum.exe.
You can change directories with the cd command: cd c:\map\map |
I placed the ISO and md5sum.exe in c:\
The prompt history:
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Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\VINCENT>cd c:\
C:\>md5sum -c packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.md5
MD5SUM: packages-athlon-xp-2005.1.md5: No such file or directory
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md5sum is telling you that you're missing the md5 file! You have to download it from the Gentoo site. The md5 file is a small text file that includes the md5 signature of the iso you've downloaded. That will allow you to compare the md5sum of the file you got and the md5sum that was produced from the original file. If they differ, you got a "modified" iso and should not install it.
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Where on the Gentoo website can I find the file?
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Solved 
Thanks for your help 
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In that case, please add [solved] to the thread title (edit first post).
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