you can do $ md5sum iso-image and compare with md5sum value provided on the download mirror
2009/3/17 raman narasimhan <rams...@gmail.com> > i used azureus (also known as vuze) a bittorrent client to download debian > 5.0 binary 1 dvd from the site > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/bt-dvd/ > after downloading i also performed a data integrity check to see if all the > chunks have been properly downloaded or not.. i found no problems and vuze > began to seed the torrent. > > but when i burned the image to a dvd and booted the system from it, debian > installer said that some installer component was missing on the dvd. > > i even shifted the download to another torrent client called Deluge and > performed another data check to see if i'd got all the chunks correctly.. > there was no error.. > how do i check if the image is valid or not?? > > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net