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nachost
10th April 2009, 06:33 PM
1)Download result.
I have downloaded Fedora-11-Beta-i386-DVD.iso from 5 mirrors via http;
and once via ftp-binary. I have done downloads on two machines,
one on Fedora 10, the other on Scientific Linux 5.2 (both upto date)

In all instances I get the same file, comprising 3812139008 bytes;
which is the same size reported on the mirror websites.

2)Image check fails:
Running sha1sum (with/wo the -b or -t options) produces this check sum:

332ec244743afc4e500c10e226fd4594215cb65a

which is only 40 characters instead of the 64 in the Checksum list:

d95200e1fa4a6bc9b79551b2e1b8ca31f474ef5fc81b7263b1 b1d1bd1af86f03

sha1sum (current version supplied with GNU coreutils, 6.12)
returns the proper value for Fedora 10 iso image. Interesting
that the sha1 value reported by the F10 mirror is only 40 characters.

3)Bad image doesn't work.
I made a DVD (good media check!) and installed anyhow, but (naturally)
don't get a working system.

Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong, or not doing?

cenomanien
10th April 2009, 07:44 PM
Hello,


Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong, or not doing?
Not reading the release notes :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#General_Information

nachost
10th April 2009, 09:27 PM
Indeed.
There was no reason to believe that the proximate documentation "Fedora-11-Beta-i386-CHECKSUM" was correct is specifying "SHA1" :rolleyes:

bbfuller
10th April 2009, 11:43 PM
Hello nachost

There has been a change in the method of checking the download for all F11 issues.

Contrary to what it says in the file sha1sum is no longer used. It is now sha256sum.

If you run:


sha256sum -c <name of file containing checksum>

it should work. It did for me.

Incidentally, in the checksum file accompanying the F11 snapshot announced today the sha256 is correctly identified.