Hi Armelius, On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 12:39 -0500, Armelius Cameron wrote: > Hello, > I know Fedora try to be more user friendly, and the website design that points > to the various download options reflects that. But I think one signficant thing > is missing: the CHECKSUM file is not easily accesible. How can a novice user > know how to check that his/her download is correct and not corrupted ? >From talking to numerous novice users in the design of the site I'm not convinced that a checksum file is something that novice users are aware of or much concerned about. The main download link points directly to Fedora's main server, not a mirror, so they'd be downloading the checksum from the same source as the payload anyway. When you burn the iso to media it has a built-in media check as well which would protect against corruption (although in observing user installs, I've found a lot of folks simply skip that as well.) > Following the link to get fedora from the main page, I ended on this page: > http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats > Since I want to get the full DVD install, I follow the link to: > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14- > x86_64-DVD.iso > > That goes to a page that tells me that the download would start shortly (and > it did), but no information about how to check the correctness of the > downloaded file. > > There's this box that says: "What should I do with this ISO file?" and a link > to instruction. The second page on the instruction ask to "Verify the > download", but again, no link to point to the CHECKSUM, or how to even verify > the download. There is a link to 'Verify download' on every one of the download pages in the right-hand column. That being said, it doesn't appear on the post-download splash and we would be happy to consider adding a link to the verify page (https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify ). > Sure, I can figure out just fine that I can browse the download directory > manually, get the CHECKSUM, and verify it with 'sha256sum' utility. But how > about Aunt Tillie ? How about people who uses Windows to download and may not > have the utility handy ? should there be at least a link to the CHECKSUM file, > or even just display the hash there on the download page, and a quick > instruction on how to check the download ? I need to point out that I'm not happy about women being used as examples of novice users. Again though, 'Uncle Bob' likely doesn't know or care about checksums. ~m -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
