md5sum. How to ?

[saeed]

Hello,

This is the second time I've downloaded openSUSE-10.3-GM-KDE-Live-i386. I dont know how to use md5sum to check the integrity. Anyone of you familiar with md5sum.. I've got three files
'openSUSE-10.3-GM-KDE-Live-i386.iso' (downloaded file)
'md5sums' (md5sum values in it) this file is with no extension.
and 'md5sum.exe' (software downloaded from etree.org)

I havn't used md5sum before. I found many tutorial how to use md5sum on Windows platform but can't get it done properly. :(

anyone???

thanks very much,

[sashaovc]

Well, basically, md5sum computes the checksum of your files, you save the checksum into a text document, and whenever you need to, you click "Verify" and the md5sum recomputes the checksum of the files and checks it with the text file. The thing about checksum is that if even one byte is off, it will be different. So if the checksums match, the file is not corrupted. Or is this not what you were asking?

[Inigoesdr]

Something like md5summer (http://www.md5summer.org/) might be easier for you to use.