Testing iso downloads?

[Paul Howarth]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:01 -0700, alan wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Gordon Gallup wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings all,
>>>   I have downloaded the FC5 isos and, after burning the first one, I
>>> found that the media check failed when I booted.  Is there any way of
>>> checking the correctness of the download step separate from the
>>> burning step?  The disk image mounted successfully with mount "loop"
>>> option.
>> There should be a SHA1SUM file with checksums.
>>
>> sha1sum -c SHASUM
>>
>> -- 
>> "Waiter! This lambchop tastes like an old sock!" - Sheri Lewis
> I know I will hear from the open (free) software advocates but if you
> are having trouble burning and checking you CD-s I would suggest buying
> the CD-s for someone like www.cheapbytes.com. They are cheap, they are
> error free and your time and aggravation is worth the $10+ cost.

Bear in mind that there are issues with mediacheck even for 
perfectly-burned media (kernel bug affecting some IDE CD readers), so 
buying the CDs is no guarantee of passing mediacheck.

Paul.