FC3 mediacheck

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Fri Nov 12 20:33:49 UTC 2004


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Mustafa Orkun wrote:

<quote>
> md5sum -c MD5SUM
> 
> I've already indicated this once. After successful MD5SUM check - boot
> with 'linux ide=nodma' and then do the MediaCheck.)
</quote>

> so what do you recommend for me?
> the cds look ok(when browsing them in windows)and redownloading them really
> frightens me!if this will be a must what is the guaranteed way.i've downloaded
> FC2 with bittorent and there were no problems.

Bittorrent internally does checksums per block - so if it 'completes'
without errors - then your ISOs are fine.

If you wish to use md5sum on windows - check the other thread on this
list on this topic.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg02666.html

Satish




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