My husband's computer died today. We rushed out and got another, cheap, temporary one while his main one is being repaired. I said that I could get it up and running quickly. Famous last words.
I downloaded the most recent Jessie Net-install + firmware, didn't checksum it because of the enormous problems I have getting the checksums (could we not please, please just have a hyperlink? I am not the only partially sighted person in the world). Yes, risk. But this is temporary, and no-one has been yowling about corrupt files on the Debian website. I started the installation, and just after partitioning and the beginning of files downloading got the following message: Warning: file:///cdrom/pool/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.18-7_amd64.deb was corrupt So I aborted the installation and went back to my 8.02 disk which I have used before. It did exactly the same. Got past partitioning (rather too fast???) and started to install the software, then stopped with the same warning. I then tried 8.0.0. Double checked the md5sum. The firmware was too old. So I broke open a new USB external optical drive, used the 8.0.2 and EFI (which I had been avoiding) and tried again. I hit the same problem at the same point. So this time I said "continue". File after file was said to be corrupt, but it appeared to be complaining that the files it was *downloading* were corrupt. Help!! Am I reduced to using Ubuntu (<ouch>), or has anyone got any constructive ideas? As I wrote that I thought of DVD1. I have never used it. Perhaps I should?? Thank you for any help or insights. Lisi
