On Sunday 18 September 2016 19:43:26 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/18/2016 12:18 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote: > >>> At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to > >>> get a net > >>> install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct > >>> links to the > >>> ISO files, but no link at all about how to get the MD5sums. > >>> Even the Verify > >>> page doesn't show how to find the MD5sums. So I think it will > >>> help many > >>> users if there can be a link to the MD5sum file at these 4 pages: > >>> > >>> https://www.debian.org/distrib/ > >>> https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst > >>> https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > >>> https://www.debian.org/CD/verify > >>> > >>> I was looking for amd64 netinstall but it seems the problem > >>> exists for all > >>> architectures and both for netinstall or CD. So adding a few > >>> links could > >>> help quite a few beginners! > >> > >> Not just beginners. I too find it a nightmare, and sometimes > >> give up. If you > >> look at the raw HTML you can extract the URL of the download > >> directory and > >> they are indeed there - it is finding the directory which is > >> hard, because > >> the link just says "click here" or something, and if you click > >> it immediately > >> begins downloading. You never see the directory. > >> > >> One of the developers has raised this as a bug. > > > > Four things: > > > > 1. Can anyone provide a link to this bug report? > > *VERY IMPORTANT* !
Here is the discussion in the final email of the relevant discussion (with interleaved quotations!) which includes a reference to the bug report which I mentioned. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/03/msg01297.html The bug report is: http://bugs.debian.org/819664 Lisi
