[TriLUG] RedHat 7.1 ISOs don't work...

[John Beimler]

begin  quotation from Sinner from the Prairy <sinner at escomposlinux.org> [on 011019 10:04]::

> On Linux:
> 
> 1.-Download the file (+/-650 MB each)
> 2.-Download the md5sums text file (+/- 1 Kb)
> 3.-[sinner at sal10000 isos]$md5sum RedHat-7.1-Disc-01-i386.iso (or whatever the 
> name is)
> 4.-compare result with md5sum file (use diff and cat)
> 5.-If the long hexadecimal string is equal in both cases, burn the image. If 
> it is not, well, rm -f and wget again.

Actually with md5sum you can use the md5sum files directly, like so:

downloaded iso:  RedHat-7.1-Disc-01-i386.iso
checksum file:   CHECKSUM.MD5

and run like so: (assuming both files are in the current directory)

$ md5sum -cv CHECKSUM.MD5

if everything checks out ok, you'll get the following output:

RedHat-7.1-Disc-01-i386.iso     OK

and if not, this:

RedHat-7.1-Disc-01-i386.iso	FAILED
md5sum: 1 of 1 file(s) failed MD5 check

for windows, I suggest installing cygwin to get the GNU md5sum utility,
you can pick it up at:  http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

good luck!

john