F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Sawrub]

On 12/18/2009 12:08 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 10:20 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Sawrub<luckysharma11 at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> I downloaded the Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso using the torrent client, 
>>> taking
>>> the torrent from
>>> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.torrent. 
>>>
>>> But the creation of bootable USB was not possible as the iso 
>>> verification
>>> failed message came up in the USB creator.
>>> Verifying the iso following the steps at
>>> 'https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify' also resulted in vain. Please 
>>> help me
>>> so that the b/w does not goes wasted.
>>>
>>> [sawrub at mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ ll
>>> total 671756
>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 sawrub sawrub       966 2009-12-17 22:34
>>> Fedora-12-x86_64-Live-CHECKSUM
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 sawrub sawrub 687865856 2009-12-03 00:18
>>> Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 sawrub sawrub       152 2009-12-02 23:50 README-SOURCES
>>>
>>> [sawrub at mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ curl
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import
>>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>>>   Current
>>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    
>>> Left  Speed
>>> 100  9323  100  9323    0     0   4396      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 
>>> --:--:--
>>>   8696
>>> gpg: key 4EBFC273: "Fedora (10)<fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
>>> gpg: key 0B86274E: "Fedora (10 testing)<fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not
>>> changed
>>> gpg: key D22E77F2: "Fedora (11)<fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
>>> gpg: key 57BBCCBA: "Fedora (12)<fedora at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
>>> gpg: key 217521F6: "Fedora EPEL<epel at fedoraproject.org>" not changed
>>> gpg: Total number processed: 5
>>> gpg:              unchanged: 5
>>>
>>> [sawrub at mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$ gpg --verify *-CHECKSUM
>>> gpg: Signature made Tue 10 Nov 2009 01:26:40 AM IST using RSA key ID
>>> 57BBCCBA
>>> gpg: Good signature from "Fedora (12)<fedora at fedoraproject.org>"
>>> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
>>> gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
>>> owner.
>>> Primary key fingerprint: 6BF1 78D2 8A78 9C74 AC0D  C63B 9D1C C348 
>>> 57BB CCBA
>>> [sawrub at mybox Fedora-12-x86_64-Live]$
>>
>> Well, I'm not going to say that the above is not a problem as I saw
>> the same thing when using the same steps, however, nothing you have
>> done so far has anything to do directly with the ISO. That doesn't
>> happen until you do:
>>
>> sha256sum *-CHECKSUM
>>
>> When I actually found very confusing because if you look in the file
>> the headers shows "SHA1" not "SHA256" and there are commands for both
>> "sha1sum" and "sha256sum".
>
> This has been discussed before on the list.
>
> The header indicates that the checksum file _itself_ was signed with an
> SHA1 checksum.  The checksums _inside_ the checksum file are the SHA256
> checksums of the various .iso images.
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But does that solve my issue. I'm not able to write the iso to USB. 
Please tell me how to get through this.

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Saurabh Sharma
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