MD5 with OSX

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#1

Hi All,

New to Linux. I downloaded a copy of 11.1 via Bittorrent, but didn’t bother doing an MD5 check, and had a problem getting the CD to load. So, I ran an MD5 on the ISO using terminal in OSX and got a bad Hash. After downloading another copy directly from the Software.openSUSE.org and running an MD5 on that, I get the same hash that I did with my bittorrent download, which doesn’t match.

Is there a problem using OSX to do a checksum? I noticed on the Ubuntu Forums the directions are almost the same for OSX as using Linux, but I seem to be having a problem.

Any thoughts?

#2

OS/X is BSD underneath and the md5sum program on it computes the same checksum as md5sum on other OSes.

#3

Thanks Ken.
So it was obviously two bad downloads, so I’ll try it again.