Re: fedora core 5 checksum

Joseph2k wrote:

Mark wrote:

leftymills@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I am trying to install Fedora core 5 from 5 CD's which I have burned,
without success. All CDs pass the media test, but the installation
still fails due to several corrupted files. I now would like to
checksum each file before I burn the iso, but do not see how. At the
site where I download the 5 files and the rescueCD file, there is a
file "Sha1sum" but I cannot see how to use it. I am totally new to
Linux.
Is there a reason the checksum of each file is not given in the clear?
Am I permitted to post here the size of each of my files to verify they
are correct?

Actually they are given in the clear, that SHA1SUM file is
a plain text file, you can print out it's contents or read
in an editor. What ever you like.



Once I have verfified the checksums, I plan to burn the 6 CDs again at
1X speed using higher quality CD blanks.

Lefty
......
I suspect that OP does not yet have a running Linux environment to do most
of these things with.

Ok I didn't notice... Do you (the OP) have a Windows machine
available? There's a Windows version of sha1sum as this file:

ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exe

you can use that with the SHA1SUM file you downloaded to
test the iso files. The linux version does it like this:

sha1sum --check SHA1SUM
or
sha1sum FC-5-i386-disc1.iso

The first way looks in the SHA1SUM file, reads the all the
filenames from there and computes the sha1 sums and compares
it with what it should be (also in the SHA1SUM file) for each
iso file.

Looking at the windows tool c file, I think it just does the
latter style so you have to look in your SHA1SUM file yourself
to see if the sha1 sum strings for each file matches what the
sha1sum tool prints out:

cd <directory where iso files are>
sha1sum.exe *.iso
43546c0e0d1fc64b6b80fe1fa99fb6509af5c0a0 FC-5-i386-disc1.iso
a85ed1ca5b63e2803f29a33ea6a6bc8eb7f63122 FC-5-i386-disc2.iso
19d87a4c5f611fa852f20e6a30bb96ead0912354 FC-5-i386-disc3.iso
bea1e959dbb238773a872f70f8896905cfb7776a FC-5-i386-disc4.iso
3966b3041620f62b5e8c8ade31b3348779cd52e9 FC-5-i386-disc5.iso
cdeb3303f8c8a1fc521cd08948d727560eba488d FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso


And looking in the SHA1SUM file for FC5, that's correct:


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

cdeb3303f8c8a1fc521cd08948d727560eba488d FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso
43546c0e0d1fc64b6b80fe1fa99fb6509af5c0a0 FC-5-i386-disc1.iso
a85ed1ca5b63e2803f29a33ea6a6bc8eb7f63122 FC-5-i386-disc2.iso
19d87a4c5f611fa852f20e6a30bb96ead0912354 FC-5-i386-disc3.iso
ed9a852cf77250c3ae111c621d350af5c0b0a29b FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
bea1e959dbb238773a872f70f8896905cfb7776a FC-5-i386-disc4.iso
3966b3041620f62b5e8c8ade31b3348779cd52e9 FC-5-i386-disc5.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFEF6hOtEJp0E8qb9IRAtVyAJ9d8MkWoT2VuN1ESxdtgLsAU/vgEgCeOpFp
wviXKRWVR/5IiFkBH+J6gAY=
=0eDh



Mark
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