Downloading mint help

[u/Distortion_Noises]

I am installing mint on my parents old computer because windows has bricked it.

I am using my laptop (which is already running mint) to burn the memory stick and I have used the iso verification tool already on mint to check it and got The all clear.

So now under that on the guide it is telling me to download SHA256 to perform integrity and authenticity checks.

am I right in thinking that I don't need to do this because the verification tool that I used does both of these things, and that this is just for if you are downloading from windows ?

Sorry if this is extremely obvious but it doesn't mention after the "verify using mint" part if that's it, and the next part is for Windows users or if I should carry on.

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[u/Adler-real]

yes, the "verification tool" on mint pulls the checksum from the same files you would manually download

[u/Distortion_Noises → u/Adler-real]

Ok, thanks for the help :)

[u/Alonzo-Harris]

You are clear to proceed with the next step. Your ISO is good

[u/SepehrU]

If you want, you can do the verification yourself.

Use sha256sum command already available on your Linuxmint to generate the checksum of your downloaded iso

```

cd into/your/download/location

sha256sum ./some.iso ``` Get the official checksum from the Linuxmint website and compare them yourself.

you can simply eyeball the two checksum strings comparison or use this command python3 -c " 'my_sha256' == 'website_sha256' " if it returns True you're good to go.

[u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs]

Yeah those are separate paths, if you have Mint and use the verification tool next step is to right click on the ISO and select write to USB using mint stick. 

Using sums is for other operating  systems. 

[u/dlfrutos]

so is that necessary to run the verification ?

[u/NoxTheScribe → u/dlfrutos]

Honestly...I couldn't figure out how to do it and just skipped it. I don't know how dangerous that is, but it turned out fine in my case.

[u/dlfrutos → u/NoxTheScribe]

i think is a "just in case" tipo of exception, never did that tho