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.
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
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
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)
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