how to check downloads with md5

[oospill]

I'm thinking of downloading Slackware to install on my desktop (when it's new PSU arrives), and noticed that on the Slackware website, you cannot download the ISOs, but just the md5, asc, and txt files. They point people to torrents to download the ISOs.

I'm sure it's overkill, but my curiosity has me wondering: when I get the ISOs, how can I use those files to verify that it's untampered with??

thanks!!

[oospill]

well, I did a google search and after a while, I got the jist of md5.. a quick trip to my Ubuntu Add/Remove .. and a search for MD5 left me with a cool program that does makes and compares MD5's ..

is there a command line equivalent that came with my Ubuntu distro?

thanks!!

[oz]

You can check this HowTo for info about properly downloading and burning ISO files to disk:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

ISO files and md5 checksum files for various versions of Slackware can be found here:

Index of /linux/slackware

Index of /pub/slackware

Index of /pub/slackware

[oospill]

thanks for the reply.. I found out that md5sum comes with my distro, and most others, with the GNU core utils.. waiting for my ISO to finish before I try it out!! =)

RTFM, right?! I always post a message before I find the answer myself!! argh!!

thanks,
oospill