Quote Originally Posted by Quinny
I've got the md5 file, but the instructions to verify are under linux/unix as i can't install, how do i run the command?
If you got the correct md5 file (not some file that you found inside the ISO) then you place it in the same directory as the iso file and run any of a number of Windows programs that will check the md5 sum. Google will track down a lot of them. I learned recently that recent versions of QuickPar (a very popular program for error recovery with par2 files) will check the md5. If you don't have QuickPar then a program that I like is md5summer. Its user interface is a bit strange but not hard to use, and it shows a nice progress report as it checks your file (some other md5 programs just seem to be locked up for a few minutes while they check the file).

The result should be a single yes or no check on the entire ISO file. If you get multiple correect file indications then you are doing it wrong and you will make another bad CD if you continue.

The downloading FAQ does indeed give links to sereral programs that you could have used, including md5summer. We tell people this check is important (particularly if you also refuse to learn how to use BitTorrent) for a reason.