"John Tate"  writes:
> I am downloading OpenBSD 4.2, I know how to use everything in that

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> but being young I am not too sure about the checksum format, md5

> tends to rule the world these days.

You're a bit early for 4.2, the closest you'll get is 4.1-current

snapshots these days.  In the same directory where you find the

OpenBSD install files for your platform, you will also find two files

called CKSUM and MD5, which contain checksums and MD5 sums,

respectively for the files in the directory.  You can use the md5 or

cksum commands to generate sums and check that the results are the

same on your local copy as the one listed in the files (paranoids can

fetch checksum files and install files from different mirrors)
> I'm stuck with a Windows box at the moment, otherwise some thought and

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> pressing tab a couple of times would probably help me :p.

IIRC both md5 and chksum are available in Windows versions.
> I probably just need to RTFM and I can make sure these FTP transfers

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> actually went down alright (I'm guessing they did but my router is a D-Link

> turd that crashes and reboots itself sometimes). If any files have failed

> ill just have to download them again.

See if you can get hold of an ftp client which supports file resume.  
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