md5sum

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, May 05, 2010 03:54 PM, terry wrote:
> I think I was told by a respondent to the list if this MD5sum and an ISO
> disk  image in the same location, maybe a download folder some thing
> like this; md5sum  ubuntu xxxxxx   xxx.iso and I would get the hash of
> the disc to compare with on line so I don't waste a cd if the hash is
> incorrect? I've not had much success with it. More so with  openssl
> dgst  - md5 /path to iso./
> Also. I saw where I could do this to get the hashes from a burned disk
> in the cdrom by md5sum /media/sr0 to see if the disc is ok.
> Also, which technique is used  md5sum  or sha256sum?, which I found both
> listed on the web sight?
> Which one is ubuntu's preference?
> Thank you.
>

Give it a bit of time to finish. Something like this in a terminal:

me at mycomputer:~$ md5sum osol-0906-x86.iso
86e19c89a30c9b91cbb096a758dea737  osol-0906-x86.iso