While awaiting more help I decided to do something more to get this process
working. Yesterday I purchased a 4 GB USB drive.
Today I loaded it with the download from the Trisquel web site. I put it onto
the thumb drive and then moved it to the other HP computer. I opened the
other GNU/Linux OS and installed the file on the desktop. I then followed the
same instructions as before regarding getting the md5sum. I got exactly the
same results.
Does this mean something is wrong with the file? Or is something wrong with
the terminology program? Let me know soon please.
Does somebody know how to do an md5sum on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8? If so I
can do it on my reliable computer.