Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/18/2016 4:34 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:43:26 Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] 1. Can anyone provide a link to this bug report? *VERY IMPORTANT* ! Here is the discussion in the final email of the relevant discussion (with interleaved quotations!) which includes a

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:43:26 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > >>> At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to > >>> get

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread davidson
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 07:26:59PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > May I suggest lmgtfy.com ? [Other, equally good and useful search > engines are also available at other web locations.] > > "Debian CD md5 sum" gives you these as the first two links if you > look for them. OP is not

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 01:43:26PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >>On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > >>>At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to >

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread davidson
TLDR: links to pertinent bug reports: #381555 - http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ : add link to iso md5 cheksum bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381555 #640054 - Download pages should have prominent links to image verification instructions

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread davidson
Clarifying edits ("link" => "link's url") in square brackets, below. On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org meant to write: 3. What web browser does not enable editing the current link['s url]? In firefox, one can right-click on a link, select "Copy link location" from a menu, and then

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread davidson
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to the ISO files, but no link at all about how to get

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net > install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to the > ISO files, but no link at all about how to get the MD5sums. Even the Verify > page

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-17 Thread Shervin Emami
At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to the ISO files, but no link at all about how to get the MD5sums. Even the Verify page doesn't show how to find the MD5sums. So I think it will help many

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-17 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 18/09/16 11:33, Shervin Emami wrote: Am I just not noticing the obvious link, or does the Debian website really not give the info about how to verify checksums? Shervin, it seemed obvious to me. The checksum files are at the top of the download directory listing [1]. Starting at

Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-17 Thread der.hans
Am 18. Sep, 2016 schwätzte Shervin Emami so: moin moin Shervin, Which specific ISO were you downloading? Where did you get the link to the image? The main download site does have checksum files right alongside the ISO images. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/amd64/iso-cd/

Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!

2016-09-17 Thread Shervin Emami
Hi, I've been using Debian for about 6 years now, but today I went to download Debian Jessie from the "debian.org" website and realized there doesn't seem to be any link on any of the pages to show what the MD5 checksum is of the Debian installation CDs! I looked through many of the official