MD5 Checksum

[Digital Froggy]

I downloaded and ISO file and I wanna check it for corruption. How exactly do I do a MD5 Checksum? Thanks!

[bdl]

Under linux, you should be able to simply issue the command

prompt$ md5sum filename

...and compare the output to the md5sum given on the server you got the file from in the first place. Note that this simply means the file you have is intact, it's not a guarantee of any kind that the file hasn't been tampered with on the server.

If you're running some version of Windows, there are DOS md5sum apps you can d/l to do the same thing. Do a search on google.com (http://www.google.com) or hotfiles.com (http://www.hotfiles.com).

[ 19 June 2001: Message edited by: bdl ]

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by bdl:
<STRONG>If you're running some version of Windows</STRONG>

if you need winders md5sum, ,read this page (http://linuxiso.org/md5sum.html) from www.linuxiso.org (http://www.linuxiso.org)