On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM, terry<[email protected]> wrote: > Not quite. You want to -c against the small CHECKSUM file, which contains > a list of ISOs and their sha256sums. For example: > $ sha256sum -c Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM > > > I don't get it! you want me to match a downloadable checksum text file to > what? how do i get the numbers from the iso file to check against the > checksums? you are not telling me all. you are falsely assuming i know more > than i do.am I > not trying to match the checksums with what the developer says they are to > be against what the file contains to insure that the iso file isn't > corrupted and reduce later grief during install. _____
The filename "Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM" is arbitrary. You can call it anything you want as long as it has the contents of the GPG key provided by the distro[1], just click on the checksum link and copy its contents to a text file. [1] http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/i386/iso/ ~af -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
