<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dear Fedora Webmaster First off, I'm not sure whether you are the appropriate person to contact about the problem I'm having, and if I'm in the wrong place, please excuse me. I've looked at the lists of other places — mailing lists, forums, IRC, community websites — and I have no idea where in that collection I should turn. So let me describe the problems I've had, and please help me if you can, or point me to where I should have gone. I downloaded the Fedora 12 Desktop Edition installable Live CDs for both the standard (Gnome) and KDE versions, and the Live Media checksum files for each. To verify my downloads, I first used the SHA1 checksum calculator in my EF Commander file manager, but the SHA1 checksums didn't match those I downloaded. So I followed your advice to download and install HashCalc, and then used it to calculate the SHA1 hashes. These results matched what I got from EF Commander, but not the checksums on your <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify">Verify your ISO download</a> web page. For the standard (Gnome) Live CD download my computed SHA1 hash was 96b1e47a06f207aab3279731124a76c15810556a *Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso while the downloaded Live Media <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i686-Live-CHECKSUM">i386</a> checksum file showed: Hash: SHA1 5ad27455df004ee23fbc5a05dfa039a14e59956dccf4e767d493601e0bfa4001 Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso I tried a second download of the standard Live CD, and that gave me yet another SHA1 hash: daf4b3ea2322dfee9a473099557ac9ed7c6d3159 *Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso For the KDE Live CD download my computed SHA1 hash was 8e22652cb697ee6f7ec9e77c1073749434a78e73 *Fedora-12-i686-Live-KDE.iso while the downloaded Live Media <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i686-Live-KDE-CHECKSUM">i386 (KDE)</a> checksum file showed Hash: SHA1 1bb64a4eedecf4730b47fcbb6c17b49d6deaccf7b00b17dd7b1091af57cf1c1e Fedora-12-i686-Live-KDE.iso These SHA1 hashes, my computed and from your web site, aren't even the same length, so I don't know what to think, whether I have bad downloads, or there is some other problem about the verification process. I opened each in IsoBuster 2.6 to see if it reported any errors, though I'm not sure whether IsoBuster has that ability. Do you have any suggestions, can you offer any advice? Thank you. Fred Yontz Reston, VA </body> </html>