[Lvlug] verifying CDs

stuart@boreens.net stuart@boreens.net
Sat, 11 May 2002 03:45:06 -0700 (PDT)


Red Hat now has an internal MD5SUM and program imbedded
in the install disks. When you put the first in you can
rrun the verify media program. I still checeked the
MD5SUMs of the isos I downloaded before I burned them.
If anyone tries to install from one of the disks I
burned and gets a bad verfification, it may be an
isolated bad disk from my burner because my 3 disks
were fine.
If anyone is paranoid that I "rolled my own" distro
with a cracked kernel or something:
   Make an iso of the install disk. 
   Download the MD5SUMs from RedHat
   Download the GnuPG public key from RedHat
   Check that the GnuPG sig on the MD5SUMS file is good
   MD5SUM the iso you made!

Stuart