Hi,

Haines Brown wrote:
> > To get the ISO for a netinst of Sarge, I go to
> > /cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a/i386/iso-cd - Debian and download
> > debian-31r6a-i386-netinst.iso  to a working directory.
> > I tried:
> >
> >   $ sha256sum --check SHA256SUMS
> >   sha256sum: Warning: 17 listed files could not be read

I guess the 17 files are the ones listed in
  
https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a/i386/iso-cd/SHA256SUMS
Obviously the checksum of the netinst ISO was not recorded in that
file.

If you want a verified ISO, then you will probably have to download
  debian-31r6a-i386-binary-1.iso
via Jigdo from
  https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a/i386/jigdo-cd/
which is listed in
  
https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a/i386/jigdo-cd/SHA256SUMS


Andrew Latham wrote:
> I would raise the point that ALL the checksums are incorrect and the 8
> year date range is at issue.

Indeed. It seems that the checksums were touched in 2016 whereas the
ISOs are of 2008. Possibly there were no SHA256SUMS files in 2008.

Also it seems that "netinst" was quite a novelty back then.
It does not exist in
  https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.0_r*/i386/*-cd/
where i only see MD5SUMS files.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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