On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:38:37PM +0100, Benjamin Nadland wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:27:52AM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 09:49:29 +0200 > > Mihai Popescu <mihai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > please tell me how to use this SHA256 file then? > > > > There was a thread recently about this where theo threatened to remove > > them, please don't. > > > > It is only guaranteed for releases and not snapshots, where it will be > > hit and miss. > > > > You can compare a SHA256 from various servers that you trust whilst > > getting the .iso from any mirror, bearing in mind that they aren't all > > in sync as the snapshots are released so often and even one server might > > have it's SHA256 out of sync with it's own .iso when you happen to > > come along. > > > > Maybe something should be put into the FAQ to prevent or shorten such threads > in the future? > [...]
Ouch. Disregard that. It is already there. (see FAQ4.13.7 - I got an SHA256 mismatch during install!)
