Quote Originally Posted by Kowood
OK, so I just tried burning the Kanotix image onto a CD-RW from a laptop that I copied the image to. I used the tutorial here: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=298 .....
The thing you gave a link to talks about making your own bootable disk from individual files, what I saw has nothing to do with burning from an ISO.

Did you figure out the answer to your first question, how to check the MD5 sum? Which md5 program are you using? Did you get a file with an md5 extension or are you trying to generate a md5 sum and manually check it against the text string that you had before. No sense in reading any further if you didn't do this.

There has been lots of discussion here about how to burn ISO files, not sure why you would have searched elsewhere for data that might not apply. Are you using EZCD? Do you have other burning software available (I haven't used EZCD since about version 3). If you're stuck with ezcd, look through the menus for an option to burn from an ISO file.