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Compare MD5 of ADC's 10a432 with Retailing DVD?
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Yes, the Retail and Up-To-Date DVDs are different. The latter has an installation checker that means it will only install if it detects a current installation of Leopard or Snow Leopard.
This is how Apple have done it in the past with the Tiger and Leopard Up-To-Date discs, so it's nothing new.
No.
Up-To-Date = Upgrade installer. You CAN however do a full Erase & Install but NOT on a blank drive.
Retail $29 - Full installer, no restrictions.
I can't believe that Apple did this. If anything, they should've put the upgrade installer on the $29 version, since all UTD orders have already provided a serial number of a new Mac that certainly has Leopard pre-installed on it.
Sorry for the confusion. Apple says the $29 is to upgrade your existing Leopard.
Thanks for the details!
No problem
Apple aren't helping by using confusing terminology.It all comes down to the licensing.
I don't understand what you are complaining about?
You paid 10$ for your UTD disc. If you want full installer, you just had to pay 29$ for the full disk, there's no reason to get UTD disc instead.
Apple did a good thing making the 29$ a full disk. That's what Snow Leopard is worth, nothing more.
Stupid questions
ok here's my stupid questions
does all the snow leopard retail images have the same md5?
i mean is it one md5 for all the retail DVDs, or every dvd retail image has different md5?
second question, if it's one md5 for all the retail disk images, so does the 29$ upgrade disk and the mac box set disk and up-to-date disk have the same md5 or different md5?
can u please give me the md5 of the
29$ upgrade disk and the mac box set disk and the up-to-date disk
sorry for all of this stupid questions but i'll really appreciate if someone explains this to me
ok here's my stupid questions
does all the snow leopard retail images have the same md5?
i mean is it one md5 for all the retail DVDs, or every dvd retail image has different md5?
second question, if it's one md5 for all the retail disk images, so does the 29$ upgrade disk and the mac box set disk and up-to-date disk have the same md5 or different md5?
can u please give me the md5 of the
29$ upgrade disk and the mac box set disk and the up-to-date disk
sorry for all of this stupid questions but i'll really appreciate if someone explains this to me
I got the Up-To-Date DVD (which had an 'upgrade' sticker on it).
I installed it on a fully fresh blank hard drive that I had just bought.
I installed it on a fully fresh blank hard drive that I had just bought.
I also get different values when I use Disk Utility's UDIF-MD5 and Terminal's md5 command. I even get a third result when UDIF-MD5'ing only the mounted volume.
Using Disk Utility:
-MD5 on mounted volume:
(...) Checksumming Mac OS X Install DVD using UDIF-MD5
(...)
(...) Checksum of Mac OS X Install DVD completed.
MD5 $74DD53456C1CDDD70989CDA0FB9CF9B2
-MD5 on DMG image file:
(...) Checksumming Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (Mac Box Set Retail Disk).dmg using UDIF-MD5
(...)
(...) Checksum of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (Mac Box Set Retail Disk).dmg completed.
MD5 $2D35C020B969DBD7E3CD78D9BB8AE221
Using Terminal:
-MD5 on DMG image file:
$ md5 /Volumes/(...)/Mac\ OS\ X\ v10.6\ Snow\ Leopard\ \(Mac\ Box\ Set\ Retail\ Disk\).dmg
MD5 (/Volumes/(...)/Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard (Mac Box Set Retail Disk).dmg) = c45aba09aa9f893debd739da453820e6
It realy doesn't matter the checksum of the image file (dmg, iso or img). Don't waste time to check that. Ofcourse all of the h-sl106.dmg will have the same checksum of 817F2D9CFB56885D6E8E3FD99855B691. It's obvious that some have used compression or others didnt so the checksum will be different. Therefor you need to check ONLY the mounted DVD Checksum!
I bet that h-sl106.dmg is not the FINAL RETAIL version as it appeared before the official launch of SL. Make sense?
I am not conviced that everyone who posted here have the real ordered DVD DISK of Snow Leopard. If someone has should make a video or something... as I have seen images used and reused from internet which were posted on other forums.
So start adding the Mounted or the DVD checksums. For instance the mounted checksum of h-sl106.dmg is (see attached)
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I've been trying to get Disk Utility to do an MD5 check again on the disk but I seem to be running into issues now. Progress never get's past 1-2% and the laptop is making an abnormal drive noise when powering on.
I'll have to investigate further into that.
I'll have to investigate further into that.
Hello to all, I am new to this forum as well as to the mac os & I just bought snow leopard 10.6 to install on my PC(yes i don't have any mac right now but i was attracted to mac os after using hackintosh OS's for few days & decided to install Orginal SL on my PC & also a few bucks are saved for me as i got windows 7 ultimate 64-bit for free as i work in a Multi-National BPO which also deals with win 7 customer support service hence all our staff got an original win 7 dvd from MS & our management, otherwise I would have bought win 7), i saw this particular post unexpectedly 20 days back while searching for SL retailers in my place, i was very interested in all this discussion. So after I got my sl today I checked md5 for both mounted & unmounted images, but to my surprise I got same md5 values for both dmg images ($817F2D9CFB56885D6E8E3FD99855B691) as opposed to what 'Nightkrawler' said(md5 values differ for mounted & unmounted dmg's).
What is more confusing to me is that when I checked md5 SL dmg in terminal, it gave a complete different value (8bce5139afaaa5a8fcda213edf5202b1) and when I checked dvd's as suggested by 'reefdog' md5 i got ($FD619787FE90525ECE05ECBCFF651B92) which is same as 'reefdog' said. So what all these fuss about why do SL has different md5's for different dvd images. Is there any official(apple) source for the complete list of md5's of so far released SL dvd's, i am asking this because even the original win 7 dvd's don't have same md5 values ( i'm not saying every win 7 dvd has it's own md5) but different md5, we can get the list of the some of them, if u r a technet or msdn subscriber. So, is it the same case with apple SL 10.6.
A detailed & appropriate response would be appreciated.
What is more confusing to me is that when I checked md5 SL dmg in terminal, it gave a complete different value (8bce5139afaaa5a8fcda213edf5202b1) and when I checked dvd's as suggested by 'reefdog' md5 i got ($FD619787FE90525ECE05ECBCFF651B92) which is same as 'reefdog' said. So what all these fuss about why do SL has different md5's for different dvd images. Is there any official(apple) source for the complete list of md5's of so far released SL dvd's, i am asking this because even the original win 7 dvd's don't have same md5 values ( i'm not saying every win 7 dvd has it's own md5) but different md5, we can get the list of the some of them, if u r a technet or msdn subscriber. So, is it the same case with apple SL 10.6.
A detailed & appropriate response would be appreciated.
Apple has created some "DMG Hell" when it comes to md5
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There's TWO md5 options. very confusing when I didn't look carefully.
Does anyone have the md5 of the 10.6.2 retail/or upgrade disc? (not 10.6.0)
thanks
Perhaps its as follows :
Do I have it right as $DAD3F6BE35157C378876AD5033DE8F028