MD5sum mismatch

[Manolis Kiagias]

Richard wrote:
>    Hi to all the members of the List.
>    I am new to this list. But not new to FreeBSD. Twice I have tried to
>    download 7.1 i386 dvd1 iso from 2 different ftp servers. But I am
>    getting a totally different md5sum from the one listed in the website
>    or ftp sites.
>    Am I getting the right one?. The downloaded file for sure is not
>    corrupt. Because I can unzip it,mount it and view the contents in it.
>    Did anyone see the difference.
>    The md5sum that I am getting is:
>    7d56d43359d7b7e05c0d450bafb4c8fa  7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
>    (md5sum)
>   

You've taken the md5 of the compressed gz file

>    64e8fe534e2e185d1f897bb742e06a1aae830f2978cb6b8c339977460fd6dfd6
>    7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (sha256sum)
>    The md5sum that is listed in the website is :
> MD5 (7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = bbb47ab60bda55270ddd9ff4f73b9dc8
>   

This refers to the md5 of the uncompressed file

> SHA256 (7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) = 303be4ce844f0cb18aa38a41988dc5fba960427dbc
> c69263410308176cb5875f
>
> Can anyone please confirm whether I am getting the right one.
>
>
>   
You are getting the right one, simply decompress before checking, i.e.

gunzip 7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
md5 7.1-RELEASE-i386.dvd1.iso