On Nov 11, 2007 3:40 PM, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 2:17 PM, Christoph Maier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. Took me some 3 hours to download the DVD & rescue CD with
> > BitTorrent, and some 12 minutes each to burn DVD and CD.
> >
> > By the way, how do I verify the checksum?
>
> If you downloaded by Bit Torrent, the checksum was verified on-the-fly
> during the download.
> Any part that didn't match was loaded again.
>
> If you don't trust that, you can go to a Fedora download site and
> fetch the SHA1SUM checksum.
> <http://preview.tinyurl.com/3d43w2>
> Then you can use "sha1sum -c SHA1SUM" to see for yourself.

Addendum.  The Bit-Torrent download initiated from the Fedora site
includes the associateddd SHA1SUM file in each subdirectory along with
the  .ISO files.

    carl
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