On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Erik Hemdal wrote: > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 11 > > Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:21:22 -0700 (PDT) > > From: ridan abid <vertelxml@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Help Downloading ISO Images > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: <20040913012122.79083.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Hi Guys, > > I need just need some quick help to fing out how to > > download the Iso Images and do the md5sum check > > > > I'm assuming that you can find the ISO's at a friendly mirror near you. > Look for files with an extension of ".iso" and pay attention to the > "architecture", such as i386, i586, i686, etc. > > There are several ways to download, depending on what tool you're > using. So I can't help much without knowing what you are trying to work > with. > > Download the file MD5SUM from your mirror to get the checksums. Then > > $ md5sum file-you-downloaded.iso > > will give you the checksum. Test the long hexadecimal result against > what's in the MD5SUM file. If you have the MD5SUM file you can just do "md5sum -c MD5SUM" and it will check them for you. Of course any iso's that are listed in the MD5SUM file that are not available will give an error. HTH, Tom
