[Discuss] md5sums

[Brian Burger]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Ryan Steele <rgsteele at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:31 PM, SJF <stanfish at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Question:
>> I have just downloaded ubuntu 8.10. Unfortunately I accidentally interrupted
>> the transmission (knocked the router off the desk), which caused an
>> interruption and when I plugged everything back in the download took up
>> again. I want to check the integrity of the iso file but there does not seem
>> to be a single md5 file with it. Does the download utility do the check
>> automatically. If not how can I do the check?
>
> The MD5 sums are in this file:
>
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.10/MD5SUMS
>
> Additionally, when you boot from the CD it has an option to perform an
> integrity check on the files on the CD.

If you did the download with BitTorrent, BT also includes it's own
built-in errorchecking, and the protocol is designed to 'fix' (look
for uncorrupted bits) of bad files.

Brian
warbard.ca