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Hello, I have downloaded the Large Complete installation Image of Debian 7 (64bit, torrent DL), burned it into a DVD and rebooted my laptop (made sure that I chose to boot from DVD), nothing boots I just go back to my main OS like I haven’t inserted any DVD, I also tried to boot it using a USB, didn’t work, tried on my other laptop, didn’t work, tried the small installation image, didn’t work, tried 32bit version, didn’t work, I tried many other Linux distribution and each one of them worked, Why isn’t Debian booting at all?
The md5sum is a hash for checking the validity of a download, especially popular for checking that *.iso files arrived uncorrupted. Here's an article from the Debian wiki. https://wiki.debian.org/MD5
If the *.iso will not boot a VM, there's a good chance it is corrupt.
It's a long shot, but, when you burned the DVD, you did use the "burn image" tool in your burning program and you know that your laptop is capable of booting from a DVD. In the early days of DVDs, there were laptops that could boot from CDs, but could not boot from DVDs.
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