On Mon May 05, 2008 at 01:21:31PM +0530, Anurag wrote:
whenever you download a large file, lookout for a file named md5sum.txt or other similar place where md5/sha1sum is listed. after the download is finished, run: $ md5sum big-file.iso and compare the value of md5 as mentioned on the site.
Or sometimes there's a digest file containing all of them.