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25-Jun-2008, 09:37 PM #1
Angry What am I doing wron when downloading linux?
I got kubuntu on a disk and it worked when I ran it. I used ISOBurn. But, I downloaded fluxbuntu (and maybe it was the wrong one) But it didn't work when I tried to brun it to a disk. Well, it worked, it burnt, but not like kubuntu. here's a screenie of what happened when I ran the CD:
http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/...bm_f29f3a9.jpg

It also did the same thing for Debian.
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25-Jun-2008, 10:25 PM #2
Link doesn't work.
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25-Jun-2008, 10:37 PM #3
damn. The internet isn't working on the computer it's on.. but needless to say, it opens like it would if you saved pictures on it.
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26-Jun-2008, 09:02 AM #4
The link is "http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/...bm_f29f3a9.jpg" which contains ... that should not be ... (only when displayed as posted), but should contain the missing part of the web linked location which it does not.

Grab the full link, and repost or edit it in your original post (if within 24 hours). The displayed link will look similar, but if you mouse over it, the status bar at the bottom of your browser should display the full link.

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01-Jul-2008, 04:32 PM #5
Also, befor you tried burning the cd, did you test the MD5 checksum of the iso you downloaded? It could be a corrupt download..

If you are using windows, download md5 from the link below and issue this command at the command prompt. (Subsatute directory with the directory where the iso is located and iso name with the name of the iso.)

CD [directory]
MD5 [iso name].iso

You should get a string of letters/numbers (Checksum) from the output. Compare those with the checksum listed on the webpage were you downloaded the iso from. If they are the same, the file downloaded correctly. If they are different, then the download is corrupt. Here is an example of the output of the MD5 Program :

bt3-final.iso f79cbfbcd25147df32f5f6dfa287c2d9

I downloaded this iso from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html . If the md5 listed on the web page matches the output of MD5, then it downloaded correctly. (It did.)

Links:
More on MD5-
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
Link to the MD5 program-
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip
Link to another, graphical md5 program-
http://www.toast442.org/md5/
Link to Backtrack 3 (the iso I used as a test):
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html
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