On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 02:47, jdow wrote:
> Use MD5SUM on the /dev/cdrom device.
> {^_^}
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > 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.
Just using md5sum on /dev/cdrom WILL NOT WORK. The actual burned CD
image is different from the iso file, but I don't know why. Even using
md5sum on the SAME CD between 2 different drives will give you different
answers. I know these things because I just tried this yesterday because
I wanted to do the same thing Marco wants to do. I *know* I saw the
proper way to do this online somewhere, but I can't find that
information now. It was something about doing a dd out to a loopback and
using md5sum on that???
Unless someone can post the definitive way to do this, the best thing
you can do, unfortunately, is indeed, like others have said, boot the
image and perform the tests.
Regards,
dk
