[lug] proper way to MD5SUM a cdrom?
Paul E Condon
pecondon at mesanetworks.net
Mon Jun 14 15:56:25 MDT 2004
> > 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
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