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A few months ago, I got a new computer in the office. Instead of Windows I decided I wanted to try out Ubuntu.

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md5sum file.iso > file.iso.md5

In order to turn a CD/DVD into an .iso one can:

sudo umount /dev/cdrom

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024

In order to turn a folder into an .iso one can:

mkisofs -r -o file.iso /location_of_folder/

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