I need help using md5deep! I have already downloaded an *.iso, using a torrent. I need to check for - for what? - an md5 hash which is what? and After I find the md5deep.exe, and run it from a Windows command prompt - what do I do? How do I get it to check the *.iso?
I’ve already been to md5deep web site and I don’t understand the instructions there.
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You should have downloaded 2 files, the iso and the corresponding text file containing the hash value plus the file name of the iso. The text file name will be the same as the iso with the additional .md5 suffix. The link to this file is at the same page as you used to start your .iso download.
In Windows, you need to put both these files in the same sub-directory (folder), and for convenience, put md5deep.exe there, too. For example, create a folder named “temp” under C, and move the files there with Explorer. Then open the command window and switch to that folder. Then run md5deep like this:
md5deep -m <md5 file name>
So, for example, if the iso file name is openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso, the text file name will be openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso.md5. And the md5deep command would be:
md5deep -m openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso.md5
An md5 checksum (hash value) is a value created with an algorithm which uniquely identifies its file. It is used to ensure that the file as downloaded matches exactly the source (bits sometimes get broken during download).
Caveat: I’ve not used md5deep myself. If you have a problem with it, there are other (and, frankly, easier) free md5 checksum programs for Windows. Google “windows md5 checker” and you’ll see a bunch. With most of these, the command is simply:
<program name> <iso file name>
The program will display the file’s hash value, which you then yourself compare to the content of the downloaded md5 text file (which you can open in Notepad).
> After I find the md5deep.exe, and run it from a Windows command
> prompt - what do I do? How do I get it to check the *.iso?
there is helpful info for you in one or more parts of this several
part thread:
i don’t know anything about Windows (have not run it since 1995), so
if that is not detailed enough for you maybe you can find a Windows
guru to help…or use google…
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natural_pilot
Thanks mingus725. That did the trick.
By the way, I already had seen the page that caf4926 and natural_pilot sent me to - that is how I knew to get md5deep.exe. But there were no instructions there on how to use it, and the instructions that came with md5deep.exe, plus the instructions on the web site where I got md5deep, were really difficult for me to understand.
Also, the hash values (whatever those are) match, so it looks like I’m in business.
You know, if you have burned the .iso already and just boot the disc. The menu offers a media check option. If the disc is good or bad it will tell you. And you should still run that regardless of earlier checks!