ok, i just dl'd redhat 9, and i ran the md5sum thingy, now, i have a problem.
first, the md5sums from the redhat ftp:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
34048ce4cd069b624f6e021ba63ecde5 shrike-i386-disc1.iso
6b8ba42f56b397d536826c78c9679c0a shrike-i386-disc2.iso
af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f990913396d shrike-i386-disc3.iso
0727c51ab359dafa9ab31e0c50958aa6 shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso
2ddd8e6a8502869cd2e78d47590b9be1 shrike-SRPMS-disc2.iso
f378cf68b22c3b9a64c86b5067511630 shrike-SRPMS-disc3.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE/YI35IZGAzdtCpg4RAvKnAKCdjWxxWvRUNOSYrXDVWFZzVG1oTgCcDdQi
Q2ngUUckqHAve4gh8ojUfPU=
=RmmX
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
disc 1 is fine, the md5sum is exaclty identical.
this is what i get when i do a md5sum for shrike-i386-disc2.iso
MD5sums 1.1 freeware for Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP+
Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Jem Berkes - [url]http://www.pc-tools.net/[/url]
Type C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\MD5SUMS.EXE -h for help
[Path] / filename MD5 sum
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[d:\redhat~1\]
[b][u][i]shrike-i386-disc3.iso[/i][/u][/b] af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f990913396d
this is what i get for shrike-i386-disc3iso
MD5sums 1.1 freeware for Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP+
Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Jem Berkes - [url]http://www.pc-tools.net/[/url]
Type C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\MD5SUMS.EXE -h for help
[Path] / filename MD5 sum
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[d:\redhat~1\]
[b][i] [u] shrike-i386-disc2.iso [/u][/i] [/b] bb1a6375577028b861a36e75ed19efed
as you can see, discs 2 and 3 are reversed somehow, and the md5sum from disc 3 (by filename) is completely off.
i redownloaded disc 3 (by filename), ran md5sum again, and got the exact same result.
WTF is going on?