Fedora Download Page Useless...

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Vytas Valas wrote:

> I went to the trouble of downloading the DVD iso file
> for 32 bit systems. The webpage says to use a program
> called shalsum to check the download. There is NO
> PLACE AT ALL on the download page or anywhere else I
> can see to find the shalsum program to check the
> download prior to trying to burn it to a DVD disk. I
> doubt I am alone in feeling mislead by the RedHat
> people when their webpage says use a program which is
> NOT available.

Hmmm, it is available on this box as:
sha1sum is /usr/bin/sha1sum

BTW, it is sha1sum not shalsum and it should be available for Windows at:

http://ftp.gnupg.zone-h.org/binary/sha1sum.exe

among other sites.  (just google sha1sum.exe)


> Well, I was interested in trying Linux but if the very
> download page is this useless then I can only guess
> the rest of the online "support" must be just as bad.
> Why tell downloaders to use a program you don't make
> available for download???????

In my experience the online "support" especially as provided for FREE here is 
quite good. YMMV (obviously).

ciao,
furlan

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