Hi Michael, Reorx wrote: > I am generally "computer literate" (maybe even "savy") but a Linux > virgin... I recently downloaded a copy of the Fedora 11 live ISO file for > Intel compatible PCs (32-bit). > > Your website suggests "validating" the D/L. > > In the "validating D/L for Windows users" section, you give Windows > users 3 choices for validating their D/L: > 1) HashCalc >>> I couldn't get HashCalc to D/L - probably a problem > with the HashCalc website - not your fault. > 2) XCSC >>> Nice little utility which reported the > SHA1SUM as "795B52B3C7B16EBA6F2CAE055EC894D8648D8095" > (without the quotes) > 3) SHA1SUM.EXE >>> Nice little command line utility that reported > the SHA1SUM the same as XCSC but using lower case letters. I > realize that this doesn't matter (i.e. the SHA1SUM is actually > a hexidecimal number and therefore is NOT case sensitive). > > Now that I have a SHA1SUM value for MY D/L, it would be nice to > find a SHA1SUM value for the file on your website for the sake of > comparing the 2 values i.e. validation. The instructions about > how to use the above software suggest opening the file "SHA1SUM" using > a text editor and comparing the values... I looked everywhere but > couldn't find a file named SHA1SUM!!! > > My request is that you put a link to the referenced SHA1SUM file on > the webpage for the Windows validation instructions >>>> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files. > html > > In the meantime, can you send me a link to the file or tell me if the > file that I D/L has the correct SHA1SUM value??? Unfortunately, the problem is that the documentation is out of date for Fedora 11, because the checksum used was switched to SHA-256 instead of SHA-1. A bug has been opened to update the documentation. There is a little bit more information in the bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/504228 There are some windows sha256sum binaries listed in the bug report, but I am not sure any of them are suitable for the Fedora Project to recommend to users. But I have no doubt that between the Fedora documentation team and the other great folks in the Fedora community, this situation can and will be improved. FWIW, I can attest that the SHA-1 of the Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso is 795b52b3c7b16eba6f2cae055ec894d8648d8095. (Now, whether you have any reason to trust me is another matter. :) -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain
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