Create Disc Image

Linux Installation

Create Disc Image

Introduction

Here are my notes on how to create a disc image for a Linux installation using a few examples. See also: **Installation Order**, Driver Installation Settings, Operating System Settings, Operating System Installation Times, Operating System Requirements, Operating System Startup Times.

Download Disc Image

Fedora 16 Desktop Edition 32-bit

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Live/i686/Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso

Fedora 21 Workstation 64-bit (Live Image)

https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ (Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso)

Lubuntu 17.04 (64-bit)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.04/release/lubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso

Mandriva Linux One 2008.0

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/2008.0

Mandriva Linux One 2009.1

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/2009.1/mandriva-linux-one-2009.1-KDE4-europe2-cdrom-i586.iso

Raspberry Pi: Raspbian "Wheezy" 2013 (Debian 7 LXDE)

General download page: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Download disc image using torrent: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/raspbian/2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian/2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip.torrent

Download disc image using mirror: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/raspbian/2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian/2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip

Install disc image to SD Card: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

Configure OS before use: http://elinux.org/RPi_raspi-config

Raspberry Pi: Fedora Remix (Fedora 17 XFCE)

Instructions for downloading, installing, etc.: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

General download page: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/raspberrypi-fedora-remix/

Download disc image: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/raspberrypi-fedora-remix/17/images/rpfr-17-xfce-r1.zip

Install disc image to SD Card: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

Configure OS before use: http://elinux.org/RPi_raspi-config

Ubuntu Desktop Edition 7.10

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/releases.ubuntu.com/gutsy/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-amd64.iso

Ubuntu Desktop Edition 11.04

http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso

Verify Downloaded Disc Image (Checksum)

Fedora 16 Desktop Edition 32-bit

https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify -> Live Media -> i686

https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-16-i686-Live-CHECKSUM

561d2c15fa79c319959cfc821650c829860651d1e5b125b2a425ac9cbd3fe1bb (sha256sum)

Fedora 17 Desktop Edition 64-bit

https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-CHECKSUM

dfd19d677790fea6144bcf537cd031dfb0a50e6c56652c94bfc71ea7bb949f2c (sha256sum)

Lubuntu 17.04 (64-bit)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.04/release/ ->

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.04/release/SHA256SUMS

ab1a9c2353180050daa2a481fb1941592bcd43f4b2c70e1fb68b442812497672 (sha256sum)

Checksum Software

HashTab (OS X/Windows)

http://implbits.com/HashTab/HashTabMac.aspx

Burn Disc Image

OS X 10.7

Applications: Utilities

Disk Utility

1) File: Open Disk Image, choose .ISO file

2) still in Disk Utility, select .ISO item from left and then perhaps the item below the .ISO item, examples:

Example 1: choose below .iso

Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso

Fedora-16-i686-L <-- this one

Example 2: choose .iso

CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso <-- this one

disk2s2

3) click Burn icon

4) insert burnable disc and start burning

5) after burning verifying will begin (you see "Verifying" window)

"Burn" Disc Image to SD Card (for Raspbian "Wheezy")

OS X 10.8

1) Find out the name of the SD card (or SDHC card)

Applications: Utilities: Disk Utility

File: Get Info: disk2s1

2) Install the disc image to the "whole" SD card

Terminal

cd $HOME/Downloads

sudo dd if=2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/disk2

Last modified: July 25th, 2017

Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)

URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/create-disc-image