[conspire] (forw) Re: Help installing ubuntu? Creating a bootable USB drive

[Elise Scher]

Hi Rick,
    Where are these checksums published, please?

Thanks,
Elise Scher

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 20:06 Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Michael Gray (michaelcgray at gmail.com):
>
> > Hi. Thank you for the invite. I think I solved my present problem, or am
> on
> > the way to the solution. The problem was not with the installation per
> se,
> > but with downloading the software to create a bootable USB stick.
>
> Thanks, I've learned something:  A bad ISO file download produces
> symptoms similar to that of a permissions problem.  But this also
> highlights my point that it's never a bad idea, immediately after
> downloads of such disk-image files, to verify their integrity against
> published md5, sha1, sha256 (etc.) checksums, before attempting to write
> them to bootable media.
>
>
> > Christian was right, defining the problem helped me see the solution.
>
> Always a worthwhile point!
>
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