<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18852"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>If I have sent this to the wrong group, please will you forward it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have recently downloaded a copy of Fedora 11 using a Windows PC (I know - go wash my mouth out) and I hit a problem when I tried to follow the instructions for verifying the download.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The instructions were on the following page:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files.html">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In the instructions, it states that the SHA-1 algorithm should be used. At least for the DVD iso image I downloaded, this was wrong.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The correct algorithm was SHA-256.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When I selected the correct algorithm it confirmed that my download was valid. However, I wasted about 20 minutes computing the wrong algorithm and then checking to see what the problem was.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This error should probably be corrected so that other people do not experience the same issue.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Richard Taylor</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>