[lug] proper way to MD5SUM a cdrom?

[Paul E Condon]

> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 06:39:41PM +0000, D. Stimits wrote:
> > >Just a question on verifying CD-R's. I have the ISO, and have run md5sum 
> > >on it, it looks good. Then I burn it with cdrecord. How do I verify the 
> > 

Suggestion: Don't do an MD5SUM check. Instead, read the whole CD with:
dd if=/dev/scd8 of=cpybak
and then use 
cmp cpybak original.iso
to check byte by byte the copy against the original

But DO do an MD5SUM check of the original.iso on your disk with the source
from which you downloaded, of course.

HTH

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net