Using the MD5 check sum

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 03:03 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 03/06/2005 06:03:26 PM, Brad D wrote:
> > I would like a quick explanation on how to use the md5sum program to
> > check the ISO downloads with.
> > 
> > The intructions on the redhat site state, "After downloading the ISO
> > images, check the MD5 checksums for the ISO images to ensure that  
> > your
> > download was successful. Do this by running the md5sum program from a
> > shell prompt against your ISO images and comparing the values  
> > returned
> > against the ones published by Red Hat."
> > 
> > How do I use the "shell prompt" to do this?
> 
> What I do is put the download and the md5sum file into the same  
> directory.
> 
> then I cd into that directory and run
> 
> md5sum -c file.md5sum
> 
> where file.md5sum is the name of the file containing the md5sums.
> Often the md5sum file will have more files in it then you downloaded -  
> those will fail as missing, but the files that you have should pass  
> with an OK mark. For iso's, it could take a little while to compute the  
> sums.
> 

Yep,  More than one way to skin that cat.   LOL
And many work well.  YMMV