CHECKSUM issue

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Tue Mar 22 19:55:27 UTC 2011



On 03/22/2011 02:29 PM, jim wrote:
> I have been using Fedora 14 since its release, 32 bit version. I am 
> building a 64 bit HTPC that doesn't have a DVD/CD drive, so I will be 
> using a Flash for boot and download. I see recommendations for using 
> DVD-iso and others saying use the Live-iso, so I downloaded both. In 
> trying to confirm the download, I used the CHECKSUM for verification. 
> The Live-iso passed and the DVD-iso failed. Is the procedure the same 
> for each? I am absolutely a novice-minus at using gpg. The sites I used 
> and resultant CHECKSUMS are:
>
> http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live/x86_64/
> http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/
>
>
> In the CHECKSUM file, the listed checksum for  
> 'Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso'
> 8f81741e938924f68965b5dceac7013d72fe875725b53f61bebd36e740f79b99 
> *Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso
>
> Checksum generated from DVD-iso from command#: 'sha256sum 
> Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso'
> 8f81741e938924f68965b5dceac7013d72fe875725b53f61bebd36e740f79b99  
> Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso
>
>
> In the CHECKSUM file, the listed checksum for 'Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso'
> f303d600fbccd1a4984e37f067472ffc6511dda25e1ece30c664051a52fe40c5 
> Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso
>
> Checksum generated from DVD-iso from command#: 'sha256sum 
> Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso'
> 87d0565961a56dcd7d360fa1302351dc9b6244f31bf15dade1f163c8e980aa34  
> Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso

Looks like the download of the Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso file failed.  That would be the only reason the checksum would be wrong.

K


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