I’ve stayed away from RedHat products since I tried unsuccessfully to install Redhat 7.3, years ago. I tried again with Fedira Core 1, via floppy installer, but it was also a disaster. Couldn’t even get a module from my common network card. Ironically, Debian was my first sucessful Linux install (supposedly one of the hardest at the time). Don’t worry, I won’t abandon Gentoo. But, I’ve got a craving to try Fedora Core 5. I want to see what the mainstream looks like. I’ve always been curious but never had it on my hard drive. Now seems to be the time. I’m downloading all 5 iso images (I know, why bother - just download it - but I have a plan). My problem is that I’ve tried 3 mirrors so far and the md5sums don’t match, so I’ve got a bunch of potential coasters here. I guess its bittorrent, with its built-in hash checking. I didn’t want to have to upload a lot, since my opressive ISP likes to choke off upload on a lot of bittorrent. They’re jerks. Anyhoo.
update: I’m not so observant at 2am, I guess. The md5sums don’t match because they’re not md5sums! They’re sha1sums! Different encryption! No wonder the calculated numbers were wrong! So, for those who need to calculate a hash of an iso image, or whatever (to find out if the file downloaded has been corrupted), you might want to try a nice graphical tool called hashcalc. It’ll calculate 12 of the most popular algorythms. Very handy. It’d be nice to have a small “compare” window, like winmd5sum has, though.
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