On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:19:50PM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:22 +0000, Pedro Freire wrote:
Before burning, and potentially wasting a disc, *I* check the downloaded
ISO against the checksum. After that check, I move onto the next step
(burning the disc, or simply using that file on the hard drive).
Good advice. It would help if the sha1sums were readily available. To
download the DVD image for F8, I went to
http://fedoraproject.org/,
and clicked on "Get Fedora" in the left hand column. That took me to
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora. Now, I may be getting blind in my
old age, but I see no reference to [check|sha1|md5|etc...]sums on that
page.
To get the sha1sums (and the rescue CD image) I grabbed the URL of the
DVD ISO, edited out the file name of the ISO file, and opened that URL
(
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/iso/)
in another tab. I was then able to pull in the rest of the kit.
How about providing direct links to these files on the download page?
Before *you* download another four gigs, do that check, and see if what
you've downloaded is fine. If so, it's burning that you need to
concentrate on, and you can use what you've already downloaded, getting
it again is just going to be a waste. If not, then it's downloading
issues that you need to resolve.
Some reference material:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/
Generally a useful page, except:
* It refers to F7, not F8.
* It refers to Windows tools and procedures. That's fine for folks
using Windows. However, news flash: there are other operating
systems in the world: Mac OS X, Free BSD, HP-UX, and one you may not
have heard of called "Linux".
Again, as near as I can tell, no discussion of check sums or how to
get and use them.
And the main download page should have direct links to this sort of
stuff.
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