On Thu 26 Mar 2026 at 20:40:14 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > [ … ] > But the checksums seem to match. I downloaded > debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.iso > the old way: > > wget > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.template > wget > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.jigdo > jigdo-lite > > In jigdo-lite answered the three questions by: > debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.jigdo > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/ > (I.e. the second input was an empty line.) > > In the end, jigdo-lite confirmed that its checksum test succeeded. > I made my own checksum computation: > > $ sha256sum debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.iso > a3dcb6f186c4b8cacd2f73e97a37f17f017c4b302808ff34b2e397ee0af6dd16 > debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.iso > > This matches in > > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/jigdo-cd/SHA256SUMS > the line > a3dcb6f186c4b8cacd2f73e97a37f17f017c4b302808ff34b2e397ee0af6dd16 > debian-31r8-i386-binary-1.iso > > jigdo-lite probably verified these lines from the (gzip compressed) > .jidgo file: > > # Image Hex MD5Sum 1ca0ff341e0f610fabc81c8a3953c8e1 > # Image Hex SHA1Sum 5c077d1178de21004474312879b0a205c15819e8 > # Image size 663771136 bytes > > > > I infer that in 2016 the hashes for another release were copied by > > accident to this release with ISOs dated 2008. (human error) > > But how would these values become associated to the names of the ISO > image files of 31r8 ? > > I still think that debian-31r6a-i386-netinst.iso is simply not in the > checksum lists of cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a and thus cannot be verified.
Yes, it clearly isn't in the list of checksummed files. The netinst.iso files /look/ like netinst images when you peer inside, but their .disk/info files say: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r6a "Sarge" - Official i386 Binary-1 (20070422) Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r8 "Sarge" - Official i386 Binary-1 (20080413) A modern .disk/info says: Debian GNU/Linux 13.2.0 "Trixie" - Official amd64 NETINST with firmware 20251115-11:04 As there are 14 of these binary files, twice the number of CDs that the whole of woody claimed to come on, it seems reasonable to suggest that the 14 CDs might carry the whole of sarge. So it would be interesting to know what the .disk/info file says inside the binary-1.iso that you've downloaded. At almost 664MB, it's much larger than the netinst.iso (105M); presumably the pool is bigger. (The netinst pool has 146 udebs and 181 debs.) Is this netinst.iso one step in the evolution from a binary-1 disk to a modern netinst ISO? (My knowledge of installation media at this time is murky: woody was the last I installed from the university network before I retired, so I bought sarge and etch on 2 & 3 DVDs. By the time lenny came out, I could download a conventional netinst via my ISP at home.) Lastly, a question for the OP: any reason for wanting to install sarge revision r6 or r6a, rather than its final revision, r8? Cheers, David.
