wrong md5sum on FC4-i386-DVD.iso

Sat Jul 9 15:50:59 UTC 2005

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.