fedora 8 MD5

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 7 15:52:15 UTC 2008


Philip Lichte wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I have recently downloaded fedora 8, as well as a couple other distros, 
> and i have been able to check that the others downloaded correctly by 
> checking the MD5 sum, after searching for a while on your mainpage, I 
> have been unable to find the correct MD5 sum for the i686 Live CD, and i 
> wish to be able to verify that the download went smoothly, so I do not 
> find out later that my data is corrupted, and it will not work.

We don't use MD5Sum. We use SHA1SUM which is a stronger checksum. Refer 
http://fedoraproject.org/verify for details on how to verify your image.

Note to webmaster: Can we add that somewhere prominent instead of 
waiting for translations still?

Rahul




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