On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 01:08:38 at 01:08:38AM -0500, Phillip Compton (pcompton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 01:09, M. Fioretti wrote: > > Many thanks to Peng and Philip for their extraquick answer, but I > > didn't make myself clear. I am looking for a *generic* way to verify > > on *linux* if a generic CD I got, already burned, matches the ISO > > checksum which I found online. I have a linux only box, and I need to > > do this in general even with CDs found on magazines, or coming, by > > third or fourth hand, maybe after weeks, by friends of friends of.... > > > > The arrival of Shrike was just the prompt to ask it, but in general I > > cannot tell to somebody "check it on windows for me" > > So, how can I do it myself? > > > > $ md5sum path/to/iso > But I wouldn't have the *iso*, just the its *content* on /mnt/cdrom. That is the problem: what to do when you only have the *end* product, instead of the ISO file. Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ It isn't easy being a Friday kind of person in a Monday kind of world.
