Thank you so much for your timely response. What I meant by the "crack in it" was a physical fracture in the disc which I noticed on the top of the 4th disc. Further, on the bottom of the disc there was a strange discoloration which could be likened to a blob. Again, thank you for your response.
Regards, Jason Smith On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Simon Paillard < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:13:52PM -0700, Jason Smith wrote: > > I ordered Debian 5.03 through the vendor Linux collections.com and the > 4th > > disc has a crack in it. > > What do you mean by "a crack in it" ? > In the sense the media is damaged ? > > You can compare MD5SUMS for the CD provided against the original MD5SUMS > (or SHA as well) provided at > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-cd/ > > > So, I would like my money back, but in this case do > > I contact the vendor for a refund or do I contact you guys? > > Contact them, *they* sold you this CD. > > In the case you are not satisfied (CD not refund), you can send the > feedback to this list, since we don't want to list CD vendors who are > not nice to (new) Debian users. > > Hopefully you can do much with the 3 firsts CD of Debian, and you may > get the rest of packages using apt-get / Synaptic through Internet > connection. > > Best regards. > > -- > Simon Paillard >

