Tim: >> 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). Charles Curley: > 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. I suppose this all depends on how you got your hands on the ISO files. I've always started from a HTTP or FTP download site, walked through to the location for the ISO files, and the checksum file was in the same directory. But I agree that the information you need to know to do this isn't as obviously available as it could be. What I did was easy, the dumbed down webpages have gone too far (as is typical for such things). >> Some reference material: >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/ > Generally a useful page, except: > > * It refers to F7, not F8. I'm not sure that's too much of a problem, though it would be better if it were generic. > * 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". Yes, I've thought that a bit of an omission, too. Though, if you're already using Linux, you've already got documentation included with your burning software, so there's a bit of presumption, there. You'd expect the same for Windows users (documentation with their software), but some Windows software is a bit tricky to work out how to burn a disc from an ISO. > the main download page should have direct links to this sort of > stuff. It certainly should be easier, but you can't have *everything* on the download page. You'll end up with a mammoth page. ;-) -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
