On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:09 -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > 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.
Yes. That's why I asked about how to verify the checksum in the first place. I thought that the SHA1SUM file must be good for something. Another question, better to be asked before upgrading than in the middle of it, after something went crazy: What's the best way to archive an older version installation (in my case Fedora Core 6) with quite a few accumulated bells and whistles, such that I could recover it if I need to? I'm kind of short of disk space to keep the old OS in place until I know the new one works. Christoph -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
