Hi, this question has no doubt been asked before though i could not find it in a search here, could someone please guide me to a step by step of how to verify the downloaded image with the signing keys, checksums & sha256 etc before i burn image to Balena Etcher? this member is NOT Tech Savvy!
In the flashing guide, just above the installing StartOS section - there are instructions on how to verify the checksum against the one listed on GitHub. Just select the correct OS to provide the specific instructions for your system…
Thank you for your reply…though i cannot see any such guide as you have stated on the link you provided? Possibly if you could screen capture those instructions it may be of some benefit? this is the version i am using - https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os/releases/download/v0.3.5.1/startos-0.3.5.1-39de098_x86_64.iso
Below is a step by step guide about how to verify a download for seedsigner, , there is nothing left out, no room for error, with Start9 there are no step by step method of how to verify download, so it’s probable many who are unfamiliar with verifying signatures will just skip this part of the Start9 install because of no direction on how to perform that task? thereby making for a more unsafe environment with which to perfom BTC transactions? What say you Jesse…possibly time for Start9 to include a more informative signature verification method?
https://youtu.be/M5-yY2XWdKM?si=qnSPr5Vp5F_stV2C
My apologies - the guide includes instructions for verifying the checksum on the .iso file, but does not mention signatures. I’ll do some more digging on this.
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Thank you , looking forward to trying out Start9 but I cannot proceed without verifying download first 
Hey, @stevo232, the current release of start-os does not use gpg signing for attestation. you can verify the image using b3sum or sha256sum
future revisions of startos will have additional signature verification schemes, stay tuned for those