Ubuntu 12.10 installation problems

[lazer100]

On 06-Mar-13 18:07:48 Sabniveesu Shashank wrote:
>To verify checksums -

>Step-1) Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04.2 have checksums available from links at
>right-bottom of the page - http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop: open
>md55sums/sha1sums (sha1 is preferrable)

>Step-2) From Windows, Download 'fciv.exe' from Microsoft's site
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290 and follow instructions
>(or)
>From Linuxes, you have 'md5sum' and also 'sha1sum' as commands from terminal

>Use any of these methods as 'sha1sum ubuntu-12.04-amd64blahblah.iso'(if
>from Linux) to obtain checksum of your download
>This one should match with the one provided on that website


>Run any of these to obtain respective checksums

ok, thanks for the info, I always wondered how one utilizes the checksums!