On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:03 -0800, Brad D wrote: > I would like a quick explanation on how to use the md5sum program to > check the ISO downloads with. > > The intructions on the redhat site state, "After downloading the ISO > images, check the MD5 checksums for the ISO images to ensure that your > download was successful. Do this by running the md5sum program from a > shell prompt against your ISO images and comparing the values returned > against the ones published by Red Hat." > > How do I use the "shell prompt" to do this? > > Tahnk you > I download both the iso files and the MD5SUM file. then a simple command such as this should tell you if the checksum is valid or not (A response is good, no response means they don't match). # grep `md5sum file.iso` MD5SUM Note: Those are the backticks in the line above.
