-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:18:29PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > 1. I have the four iso files for SW 10.0 (thanks, Greg) plus the > associated md5 files. How do I verify the intactness of my > downloads? The man page seems to suggest I should have a command > called "md5" unless I am misreading it, but there ain't no such > animal on my system. Related to that, I will then burn a set of > CD's and will need to verify those burns as well. > Here is the easiest method. 1. Put the *.md5 files, and the *.iso files in the same directory. 2. Then issue the following command: md5sum -c file.md5 here, file.md5 refers to the file containing the md5checksum. If the file you're checking is ok, the md5sum program will tell you this after a bit of a wait. If the file being verified doesn't match the given checksum, you will be told that as well. As for checking the burned cd images, I plan to modify the md5 file to point to /dev/cdrom, instead of the file name of the iso image. In theory, this should work, but I've never tried it. > 2. There should be a way to "open" those iso files, copying or > converting them to the corresponding files and directories, > without first burning the CD's and then mounting and copying the > contents back in again. How would you do that, going directly > from an iso file to a directory structure on the HD? > There is a way to do that. Assuming you have the loop device compiled into your kernel or as a module (this is not the same as the network loopback device), you should be able to do: mount -ro loop file.iso /cdrom . This of course assumes that you want to mount file.iso onto the /cdrom mount point. Hth. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA4fq/7s9z/XlyUyARAtALAJ9N2PIOSwpiMGxXLWpl92YkXyY8kACeOWcL GnJzxj1pliArM5Oj1fsmej8= =6qpj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
