Burning the Distribution to CD
With the CD images copied to your computer, you can proceed to verify their contents and burn
them to CD. All you really need is a CD burner on your computer.
With Linux running, you can use the md5sum or sha1sum command to verify each CD.
If you are using Windows to validate the contents of the Linux CD, you can get the
MD5Summer utility (www.md5summer.org) to verify each CD image.
Assuming you downloaded the MD5 file associated with each CD image, and have it in the same
directory as your CD images, run the md5sum command to verify the image. For example, to verify
the KNOPPIX CD shown previously in the wget example, you can type the following:
$ md5sum KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
653acc801d4059598bd388de8171a20d KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
The MD5SUM file I downloaded previously from the download directory was called
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.md5. It contained this content:
653acc801d4059598bd388de8171a20d *KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
As you can see, the checksum (first string of characters shown) that is output from the ISO image
matches the checksum in the MD5 file, so you know that the image you downloaded matches the
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