On Saturday 09 July 2005 13:42, Lars wrote: > hi, > first of all: sorry for my bad english... > > i downloaded the FC4-i386-DVD.iso image 3 times from different servers in > germany, and got a wrong md5sum each time... > > in the check-files is the following sum: > 2f151a7329846da685c2a72fcb40eba3e8a355a0 FC4-i386-DVD.iso > i got a different one each time > > the last one i had was: > c136e0bb691398e9d7b15d645f930628 FC4-i386-DVD.iso > its different and !?shorter?! > > any ideas welcome, thx for your help > lars You are using the wrong program to check your iso images. RedHat has switched from using MD5 sums to SHA1 sums. If you're running a recent Linux already, you should have sha1sum installed on your system - if you are running windows, follow the directions here: http://www.roseindia.net/linux/tutorial/checkingfedoracoreiso.shtml Peter.