[ydl-gen] [YDL5] Install DVD won't boot (bad media?) and related questions

[Bill Fink]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Jon wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:
> > Remember that what Apple has done with open source is modify nearly
> > everything to it's taste.  Apple's pdisk for example is probably not
> > able to see or read ext3 format which is the format used by YDL.   
> > So the
> > above doesn't mean anything.  Apple even entirely removed md5sum from
> > Darwin, the open source or BSD component of OS X which is standard
> > everywhere else (in every other Unix).
> 
> With regards to MD5, I disagree fully.  I checked my stash of YDL 4.1  
> ISOs against Argonne's and the MD5s match.  Perhaps Apple's `md5`  
> utility has changed somewhere in the past, but I can say with  
> certainty that since 10.2.8 on forward `md5` works "as expected".   
> Please `man md5`.

I can also verify that Apple's md5 utility gives the identical
MD5 checksum as Linux's md5sum (just checked on MacOS X 10.4.9).

And even if it didn't, you could always get the source to md5sum
and rebuild it on MacOS X.  But you don't need to.

						-Bill