md5sum on CD

[Joseph Kubik]

md5sum /dev/cdrom should also work correctly.
-Joseph-

On 11/21/05, Kevin Cozens <kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Moniz Family wrote:
> > On a related note, I downloaded all 4 ISOs for Fedora Core 4, but none
> > of them had the same checksum as specified on the mirror site. I tried
> > downloading Disk 1 a second time and had the exact same (but incorrect)
> > checksum as the first try.
>
> The subject line of your message mentions md5sum. If you are using that
> program to generate the hash you are comparing against the information on
> the
> FC4 download sites you are using the wrong program. The file containing
> the
> hash values is called SHA1SUM and near the top of that file you will see
> the
> line "Hash: SHA1".
>
> You need to run the program sha1sum to get the correct hash values. The
> switch
> from md5sum to sha1sum was made sometime after FC3 came out.
>
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>
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