Help Downloading ISO Images

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Erik Hemdal wrote:

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> > Message: 11
> > Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:21:22 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: ridan abid <vertelxml at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Help Downloading ISO Images
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> > Hi Guys,
> >  I need just need some quick help to fing out how to
> > download the Iso Images and do the md5sum check
> > 
> 
> I'm assuming that you can find the ISO's at a friendly mirror near you. 
> Look for files with an extension of ".iso" and pay attention to the
> "architecture", such as i386, i586, i686, etc.  
> 
> There are several ways to download, depending on what tool you're
> using.  So I can't help much without knowing what you are trying to work
> with.
> 
> Download the file MD5SUM from your mirror to get the checksums.  Then
> 
> $ md5sum file-you-downloaded.iso
> 
> will give you the checksum.  Test the long hexadecimal result against
> what's in the MD5SUM file.

If you have the MD5SUM file you can just do "md5sum -c MD5SUM" and it will
check them for you. Of course any iso's that are listed in the MD5SUM file
that are not available will give an error.

HTH,

Tom