new to all this, but can't work out what to do

[Harry Kuhman]

..... I'm using Nero under XP with gigas of free space and 256 of RAM, AMD 1300 processor. I don'tknow how to check the md5 of my image file because it's new to me, and the documentation link you pointed me at tells me what to do under linux- which I don't yet have

I don't know which version of Nero or what choices you made, so I still do not know if you burned the iso properly. Nero can burn an ISO file properly, but it can also write a copy of the iso to the hard disk as one big file. If you look at the CD after burning it (under windows) do you see an entire file structure on the CD or one big iso file?

md5 checking is important. You could have just gone to Google and searched for the term md5 or even used the search link at the top of this page and found lots of discussion about it on this forum (almost all applying to just this problem). I like the md5 tool available at http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewfor...60f603908515ba but anyWindows md5 tool should work.