Newbie's Guide To Finding Md5sums

First off, you will need to download and install this program.

http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WinMD5/

It is the best and easiest program I've seen for finding hashes in Windows.

Now - You will need to find the correct MD5SUMs of the images you downloaded.

http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version

Find your mirror, and click on the MD5SUM. If you downloaded the images from opensuse.org, then you will need the mirror shown in this picture.


(These steps apply to all mirrors.)

Find the correct media, whether it was 5 CDs (Boxed in Blue) , 1 DVD (Boxed in Red) , or the Internet Install CD (Boxed in Yellow, hard to see). Open the file, and it will give you a list of all of the hashes.

(Now - Keep that window open.)

Run MD5SUM. Drag your iso files one by one onto WinMD5.


Out will pop out a hash, and compare it to the hash marks on the mirror list. If they match, you have a good image!

I hope this helps some people out.

Excellent tip. I'm going to sticky this here in Install/Boot until the 10.2 adoption rush is over, at which time I'll move it to Tips & Tricks.

There is also MD5summer from well http://www.md5summer.org

Works well and fairly straight forward if you read the GUI.

A very helpfule tip but plz kindly inform me how can i verify the image downloaded via bittorrent...

A very helpfule tip but plz kindly inform me how can i verify the image downloaded via bittorrent...
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You download the .iso image via bittorrent and then find the md5 checksum for that iso file. Then see that it matches with the md5 checksum mentioned on the site.