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ISO´s and MD5SUM ( checksum ) For those of you that never came near to linux, here is a description how to download your first Linux ISO, and check its integrety. For the ones already running Linux: Imagine, one day you get bored with your current distro and you want to try something else. Or, you´ve got enough HD space and want to triple-boot. Or, and this is more likely to happen; there is a new version of your disto hitting the mirrors : You start downloading the ISO´s. After downloading you can check the integrity of the ISO-file with a checksum, the md5sum. The mirror will offer you a separate text file to download with a 128 bit string of characters. This string has to be exactly the same as the one you get when you do: CODE $ md5sum downloaded.iso The string you get typically looks like: QUOTE (Text @ Screen) 563c1bfff307a16d45f5d6 a04011f07b ( Sure you have to ¨cd¨ to that directory first or do /home/bruno/tmp/downloaded.iso ) Creating the checksum will take only a minute. Usually I only check the first and the last 5 or 6 characters of the string. The checksum can be done in windows too: see Checksum in Windows Once you are sure the ISO is O.K. you can burn it to a CD. WARNING: Doing the checksum to check your CD will give you a different string !
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