How safe is it to buy Linux distributions on ebay

[Christoph Georgi]

Byron Poland wrote:
> On 9/4/05, Rajiv Vyas <rajiv1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>When I tried it for the first time couple of weeks ago (k3b as well as
>>Nautilus), the burning would stop about half way, says something like
>>cdrecorder error, Code 254. I fixed that by starting DMA, which
>>apparently is not switched on automatically. Now, when I try and burn
>>an ISO image (breezy) the CD burning goes all the way, but for some
>>reason I am unable to load breazy on the laptop. Didn't have this
>>problem when I was running Sarge. It would burn out of box.
>>
>>Rajiv
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> Have you checked the md5's? the image could be bad.  also someone
> smarter may adivse on a way to check the burned cd to see if it is
> okay as well.
> 

you'll find an md5 checksum on the burned cd (in the cd root) to check
the content..


regards
christoph

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