How to check ISO with MD5sum ?

[brjoon1021 0]

How do you check an ISO image that you downloaded ? I see that there is some MDsum or MD5sum for this purpose but I have no idea what to do.

 

Thanks

[nebulus 0]

Code:

md5sum filename.iso

And compare to md5sum found on the webpage.

Take a look at man pages..

Code:

man md5sum

[binman 0]

tht's how u do it in linux , if u wanna do it in windows try this WinMD5 v2.01, get it here : http://www.blisstonia.com/shareware/WinMD5/

[nebulus 0]

Quote:

tht's how u do it in linux (...)

First of all, this IS a linux forum. Secondly, it still would work.. either with Cygwin or UnxUtils (Windows ports of common GNU utilities)

[Dapper Dan 0]

nebulus, you seem to be taking offense at what binman wrote. Why? As a newbie, brjoon1021 may likely still be just a Windows user and would need to know how to do md5sum in Windows. Also, as a newbie, I doubt he would be familiar with Cygwin or UnxUtils. I had the impression that biman was just trying to be helpful like you were...

[nebulus 0]

Taking offence?? Oh no.. not at all

[Dapper Dan 0]

My mistake, sorry..

[Maillion 0]

Dapper Dan,

 

Are you on any other linux forums?

[Dapper Dan 0]

I visit here, LinuxQuestions.org, sometimes Justlinux.com, and am the moderator of TresLinux at Trescom.org.

[Dapper Dan 0]

Maillion, I just saw where you had posted over at the Morphix forums. I guess you must have seen my name over there which is why you asked. I forgot to mention that I visit there too..

[RagingIfrit 0]

I tried this in Mandrake (in 'star'/run program/ md5sum <name>) and once i pressed run nothing happened. No window opened, nothing. Help?

[iamroot 0]

You have to wait for some time for the md5 sum to appear. Just wait for a while.