On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:48:53PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > in my case,
> > these files are not usable unless the MD5 (or other) checksums are available
> > somewhere on the site.  There must be some way to verify the integrity of
> 
> What is the purpose? Just to verify that you downloaded correct?

Yes, it would be nice to know that the downloaded file is intact before
finding out the cd-rom created therefrom isn't really bootable, or worse,
getting some fatal error from tar, gzip, or other later in the install
process.

> These are unofficial ISO images. Where would checksums for them be posted?

I suppose on the unofficial site where the unofficial ISO images are found.

(In truth I would prefer encrypted signing, but I don't know if that's even
possible with ISO image files.  Anyway, I thought it would be asking too
much, because the person who makes those image files has to create public
and private keys and maintain them.  Lots of extra work.)

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henry nelson
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