md5 in the ISO directory. The file
contains one or more MD5 (128-bit) checksums, representing the ISO files you want to
check. Other distributions publish SHA1 checksums, which does 160-bit checksums.
You can use that file to verify the content of each CD (as described later).
Downloading the Distribution
You can download each ISO image by simply clicking the link and downloading it to a directory in
your computer when prompted. You can do this on a Windows or Linux system.
If you know the location of the image you want, with a running Linux system, the wget command
is a better way to download than just clicking a link in your browser. The advantage of using wget is
that you can restart a download that stops in the middle for some reason. A wget command to
download a KNOPPIX CD image (starting from the directory you want to download to) might look
like this:
$ wget -c kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
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If the download stops before it is completed, run the command again. The -c option tells wget
to begin where the download left off, so that if you are 690MB into a 696MB download when it
stopped, it just adds in the last 6MB.
A more ???good citizen??? approach to downloading your ISO images is to use a facility called BitTorrent
(http://bittorrent.
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