Look for subdirectories that describe the distribution,
architecture, release, and medium format. For example, mirrors for the Fedora 8
Linux distribution might be named fedora/linux/8/i386/iso. Other Linux distributions,
such as Gentoo and Debian, have tools that will search out online repositories for
you, so you don??™t have to find a mirror directory on your own.
ISO images??”The software images you are going to burn to CD are typically stored in ISO
format. Some repositories include a README file to tell you what images you need (others
just assume you know). To install a distribution, you want the set of ISOs containing the
Linux distribution??™s binary files.
Although an ISO image appears as one file, it??™s actually like a snapshot of a file system.
You can mount that image to see all the files the image contains by using the loop feature
of the mount command. For example, with an image called abc.iso in the current directory,
create an empty directory (mkdir myiso) and, as root, run the mount command: mount -o loop
abc.iso myiso. Change to the myiso directory and you can view the files and directories the ISO
image contains. When you are done viewing the contents, leave the directory and unmount the
ISO image (cd .. ; umount myiso).
MD5SUM??”To verify that you got the right CDs completely intact, after you download
them look for a file named MD5SUM or ending in .
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