On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 03:03 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 03/06/2005 06:03:26 PM, 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? > > What I do is put the download and the md5sum file into the same > directory. > > then I cd into that directory and run > > md5sum -c file.md5sum > > where file.md5sum is the name of the file containing the md5sums. > Often the md5sum file will have more files in it then you downloaded - > those will fail as missing, but the files that you have should pass > with an OK mark. For iso's, it could take a little while to compute the > sums. > Yep, More than one way to skin that cat. LOL And many work well. YMMV
