Re: fedora core 5 checksum

Mark wrote:

.... snip ...

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:

Why use such an awkward utility when MD5sum seems to do the same
job, be more convenient, and available everywhere?

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