deian installation questions

[Jude DaShiell]

The md5 file can be used to do a trivial validation on an iso file by 
having both the md5 file ad the iso in the sae directory and also having a 
version of md5sum installed on either Linux or windows.  Then it's a 
matter of running md5sum speakup-netinst-3.1r0a.iso <cr> and md5sum should 
take a while and if you're lucky just return you to the system or prompt 
which means the md5sum test passed.  For the gpg file you'll need to have 
gpg installed and operational and you'll need to import the gpg file into 
your keyring.  If memory serves after that gpg -v 
speakup-netinst-3.1r0a.iso and wait for the response.  It's not uncommon 
to have a file pass the md5sum test and fail the gpg test either.  If any 
of the two tests fail, you got yourself a bad iso download and will need 
to repeat the try later.  I managed to get an earlier version of debian 
downloaded but never managed to get the latest version downloaded and 
burnt clean to date.  So I'm going to try an image download if I can ever 
get a good line for the sources.list file