how to make a sum of the installed iso files

Tue Nov 23 18:21:56 UTC 2004

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:43:52PM +0100, yahya John Lorenzen wrote:
> > How do I check the files after I downloaded them?
> > I mean weather they are good ore not,,
> > ore they where downloaded but with mistakes...
> 
> md5sum *.iso
> 
> and then compare that to the values in the MD5SUM file.

An easier way might be to download the MD5SUM file [1], put it in the same
directory as the ISO images, and use the -c option for md5sum (i.e,
md5sum -c MD5SUM).

[1]
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/MD5SUM