Verifying integrity of LiveCD?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Apr 9 01:40:03 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:32 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Oisin Feeley wrote:
> > What is the preferred way to verify the integrity of the various
> > LiveCDs available for the F9-Sulfur beta? I tried to test the
> > i686-LiveCD and was unsure whether its failure to boot was due to a
> > corrupt burn and/or download.  There seems to be no sha1sum or md5sum
> > available on the prerelease page[1] to enable a quick check of the ISO
> > image.
> 
> SHA1SUMS is available on the mirrors, it just is not linked directly from the 
> download (mirror redirect) page.
> http://mirror.lib.ucdavis.edu/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Live/i686/

The live images, like the traditional install isos, also have an
embedded md5sum that can be checked.  Either select the 'Verify and
Boot' option from the syslinux menu or you can install the isomd5sum
package and run checkisomd5 manually

Jeremy




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