Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Tuesday 29 March 2016 23:55:33 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >No help - but "Join the club". Been there, done that, got the tee shirt. >> >Mine was a new computer and, after over a day of tearing my hair out, >> > trying again, trying differently,and re-downloading etc. etc., I >> > installed Ubuntu MATE (how are the mighty fallen!!), just to make sure >> > that something would install. It did. I am about to try a few more >> > methods of getting Jessie on. But I want a night's sleep first! (This is >> > a companion saga to the one I have already reported, not the same one). >> > It is not helped by the fact that check sums are not available for the >> > 8.02 or 8.03 firmware net-install isos. And 8.0.0 (for which I have got >> > the check sums) has not got the necessary drivers. >> >> We've never made 8.02 or 8.03 firmware netinstall images. If you mean >> 8.2.0 or 8.3.0, > >Yes, I'm sorry. I do mean 8.2.0 and 8.3.0.
OK, cool. :-) >> look in the directories on cdimage.debian.org for the >> signed checksums alongside the images: > >I'm very grateful for everything the dds do, honestly. But please, now that >you help the blind a little, could you not start to remember the partially >sighted? > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware >>/archive/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/ (8.2.0 in the archive) >> >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware >>/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/ (8.3.0, the current stable release) > >This information is not available on the website. It is gold-dust. The >website has a hyperlink that says "AMD64" >https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/ > ><rant> >Yes, it says that the check-sums are available. It says that they are in the >same directories. It doesn't say where and what those directories are. It >just has flipping hyperlinks that don't go to the directories, which would be >fine, they just go straight into downloading. > >So to find the directory one has to go into the raw HTML. But I have great >difficulty reading raw HTML. I have great difficulty finding the place on >the page. Letters dance and lines merge. I haven't been able to read even >large print books for ten or fifteen years. Sorry to hear that. :-( >And the lines I want are not even at the beginning or the end. So this time I >googled it, in the hope of being taken straight to the directory. And found >an email from you, presumably in fact out-dated, saying that the check sums >for the firmware isos had not yet been put up. So I gave up. > >I just don't understand why the dds have decided to make it so difficult to >get the check-sums, when check-sums are so important. There are so many ways >that they could be made available. ></rant> Agreed. >You have just made them available to me. That is just fantastic! I can now >at least be sure that my iso is not corrupted. > >So thank you very, very much Steve. But could you perhaps persuade your >colleagues to make them readily available via the website? Argh, yes. I've just filed a bug (http://bugs.debian.org/819664) to try and get some of this mess cleared up. We have far too many web pages with different details on them for things like downloads, and it's a confusing mess. :-( >> >I had not got the motherboard manual and did not know what the motherboard >> >was, so couldn't download the manual. I have now asked the shop what it >> > is, and downloaded the manual. >> >> Are you trying to dual-boot with Windows, or replace the Windows >> setup? > >No. It has no Windows on it. And now I have the manual, I see that if the >BIOS is at its defaults, the BIOS is fine, but from what the tech support >chap said, I suspect that settings have been changed by Novatech, so that is >what I shall look at next. I did look before, but without the manual I was a >bit at sea. Yup, of course! I can see that based on your information "Giga-Byte GA-H110M-S2H" Henrique has provided more help and it may be bleeding-ege hardware issues. Let's see how that goes when you get back from your trip, I guess. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
