i've been lazy to build checksums til now....
keep up, checksums will follow soon.

Z.

2007/3/23, Henry Nelson <netb@yuba.ne.jp>:
> 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.)
>
> --
> henry nelson
>  WWW_HOME=http://yuba(dot)ne(dot)jp/(tilde)home/
>