Product: Fedora Documentation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912563
Bug ID: 912563
Summary: Instructions faulty and/or lackng regarding validation
of ISO's from a Windows 7 platform
Product: Fedora Documentation
Version: devel
Component: readme-burning-isos
Severity: medium
Priority: unspecified
Reporter: j.moorhouse(a)zoomtown.com
Created attachment 699286
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Attachment 3 (the other 2 weren't allowed); 3 attempts at Command Prompt
Description of problem: First, you assume that the CHECKSUM file is readily
available; it isn't. It can be found by clicking the proper link from
https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify . In "Burning ISO Images to disc" 3.1 you
suggest 3 free tools to check the hashes in a Windows Graphical Environment;
none work. HashTab (att 1) doesn't cover the SHA256 algorithm, the web site for
the Marxio File Checksum Verifier couldn't be accessed, snd the DiviHasher (att
2) worked fine except that the length of the calculated hash exceeded the space
available. In 3.2 (att 3), we are trying the Command Line. The first attempt
does it just like the manual; it failed. The second assumed that by "Owner" in
the manual example you meant to substitute the actual name of the owner; it too
failed. The third attempt does the directory change in one operation and the
hash calculation in another, because that works; doing them both in the same
contiguous operation doesn't.
Incidentally, Windows no longer uses those cuddly little "My Whatever"
expressions.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible: Very!! I spent over a week fighting this!
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just follow the printed directions exactly
2.
3.
Actual results:
See attachments
Expected results:
Calculation of a valid checksum
Additional info:
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