Re: How to verify install iso?
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 07:59 +0000, Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
> On 13 December 2013 01:41, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >
> > There's no explanation where the checksum files can be found. The iso
> > does include a md5sum.txt and nothing else. There simply is no file for
> > comparison.
> >
>
> The checksum cannot be in a file because the file itself might have
> been forged. It is necessary to compute it by analysing the contents
> of the ISO itself. That's what the mentioned tools are for - they will
> output a checksum that should match the one on the website.
If it's signed it theoretically could, but I anyway would be
surprised ;).
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