SHA1 checksums for the FC4 ISO images

[Spydermag68]

I have used MD5 for FC3 but do not have a program to do SHA1.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Why don't you use the built in mediacheck?

 

[Spydermag68]

If the download is no good why burn the disk.

 

[sciencewhiz]

what OS? sha1sum should be included in most linux distributions by now.

 

[Spydermag68]

I downloaded the files to my WinXP machine so I could try FC4.

 

[sciencewhiz]

try sha1sum.exe here:ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary

Never used it, but google found it.

 

[SUOrangeman]

DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!

(DAMN Hash Calculator, that is. Too bad the official homepage is gone.)

-SUO

 

[n0cmonkey]

Windows doesn't come with these utilities?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Windows doesn't come with these utilities?

Windows doesn't come with all sorts of usefull software and utilities, unfortunately.


Personally I test using md5sums. It's ok on Windows. If you download using Bittorrent then bittorrent does continious check sum'ng to ensure a proper download (of course if the the file that was used to start the original bittorrent service on the server was screwed up then it may be corrupt)

The one thing that pisses me off on Windows is that there is no way (that I know of) to test a cdrom AFTER it's been burned.

With Linux I can go:
md5sum /dev/cdrom
(or similar command)

after I burn a CD to make sure that it was ok. (although just once I had a bad cdrom that read fine in the burner, but not on other cdroms)

Seems to me that this is most usefull because most errors, at least from what I see, happen during the burn proccess.

Maybe there is a utiltiy included with Nero or something that will do this.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I think we've pretty much mastered the burning to disc thing. Unless you use ultra-crappy (or used) media on a 1989 PC, you really shouldn't have many problems burning verified images to disc.

-SUO