"How to download and burn an iso image file" Mini Howto for linux. (I am using ubuntu 7.04 and kde) Back to Main Page
This i a very short version, and if you want to know more, go to the Internet etc.
This howto is without any guarantee, and you may use it on your own responsibility only.
There may be errors, but I do not want to use too much time to write this howto.
My idea is to make documentation, so you can at the least start using the system.
I (66 years old) have abstracted what I find most important, from lots and lots of documentation.
To check specific words you may use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (search).
It's easiest to print this howto out, to use it, by your side !
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An iso image file is
to check this "MD checksum"
To convert an iso image
Other cd burning programs
Open the k3b burning program
k3b automatic calculates the MD5
checksum
To download an iso image file
go to Google search
An iso image file is a big file which again contains lots of
folders and files, typical for burning an installation cd, but the
contents
could be any directories and files.
The idea with an iso image is, that it is better to transfer one bil file over the Internet, instead for a lot of small files.
To confirm that the iso file is uncorrupted after transfer, there often
is made a MD5 file, containing a line of letters/numbers, which
is also to be downloaded, and then checked against the iso file.
One way to check this "MD checksum" is to open a konsole and then write "openssl dgst -md5 name_of_image.iso" like this:
Then you will get a checksum which could look something like this
1ad3c003xycbe27b3265da23b886d047 Back to Index of page
If this is the same figures as in the downloaded MD5 file, you know that the contents of the iso has not been fiddled with.
If you use the k3b program to burn the iso image, this checksum will be automatically made, and shown for you to see,
before you press the "Burn" button.
To convert an iso image into its content of files you have to burn it, and for this purpose you use a cd burning program.
If you use the KDE desktop manager the choice of burning program could be K3B, which I find very easy to use.
Other cd burning programs are:
Nero for Windows
BurnCDCC is a free very simple to use iso burning program for Windows: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/burncdcc.zip
Open the k3b burning program:
Then click on "Burn CD Image":
Now choose the iso image to burn by clicking on the directory folder icon (to the right in the "Image to Burn" window):
Select the image file by clicking on its name (blue color) and then click "OK" button:
As you can see above, the "Start" button is greyed out (not active), so now insert an empty cd in the cd writer slot:
After the empty cd has been inserted, k3b automatic calculates the MD5
checksum, and you can see it in the window with the vertical
slider (pull the slider down with the mouse).
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After you have checked that is the proper MD5 checksum (same as in the downloaded MD5 text file), just press the "Start" button,
and if everything is well the cd writer begins to burn the "iso image":
Then when the burning is finished, you see "Succes" written (and a sound playing), which tells that the burning was well done
and the cd burner slot is automaic opened (take the cd out, and write a label on it):
Click on "Close" button, then File - Quit, to close the
program.
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To download an iso image file of puppy (just an example), go to Google search (www.google.com), and in the search window write:
"puppy download", or maybe "puppy software download", and when you get the result list, choose.
http://www.puppylinux.com/download/downpage.htm - and on this webpage choose e.g.
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/:
Here is a clip from this ftp site:
Most of the download websites on the Internet looks different from each other, but the principle is the same.
Her you see the link to the very iso image, ending on .iso - and to
download it just click on it, and then a pup up window will show up
asking you if you want to save the iso image, and just choose the "Save to Disk" button
and click "OK" - then the download wil automatic begin (this clip is
from Firefox):
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Here above an iso image is being downloaded, and please notice that it is downloaded to the "Desktop", and you may later
move the downloaded image to another position (directory) on your harddisk.
Here is a collection of some important live cd's etc. (some inportant iso's), you might download and burn to cd's:
http is faster than ftp protocols, when downloading
Knoppix 5.1 - a cd with most important tools: Click here to download Knoppix 5.1 "live cd" iso, choose nearest address
SystemRescueCd-x86-0.3.7 - important tools: Click here to download SystemRescueCd-x86-0.3.7 iso, choose newest version
Gparted partition manager:
Click here to download GParted partition manager, choose newest version
SGD - Super Grub Disk:
Click here to download the Super Grub Disk
Kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso (Install cd): Click here to download Kubuntu 7.04 (Ubuntu with KDE Desktop)
Those are "tools" I have in my collection.
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8/2007