Re: my experiences trying to install Etch

["Kushal Kumaran" <kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com>]

On 4/20/07, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
> I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several
> issues.
>
> I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a
> running Debian system for that.
>
> Can anybody suggests how I should proceed?  (5) is a fairly serious block.
>
> <snip>
>
> 2) I saw no published checksums for the .iso files.  I find checksums
>    are a nice confidence-building measure.
>
>    For example, with Fedora I download the .iso from a random mirror
>    but download the checksums from the master site.  This has revealed
>    problems at least once.
>
>    Even better than checksums would be signed checksums.

I don't know where you downloaded the iso from, but the MD5SUMS and
SHA1SUMS files are in the same directory on the CD image servers as
the iso files themselves.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-dvd/

There are also files called MD5SUMS.sign and SHA1SUMS.sign.

> <snip>

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Kushal