[Novalug] verifying checksum of CDs after burning

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Mon Jan 8 10:01:05 EST 2007


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> Jay,
>
> I'm not 100% what you're asking, but a simple way to check if the ISO
> and the CD it's burned on are the same is to do an md5sum on both the
> image file and the CD device with the burned CD in the drive:
>
> md5sum somedisc.iso
> md5sum /dev/cdrom (assuming /dev/cdrom is where the somdisc.iso image
> was burned to)

Bascially, this is what someone else recommended, and I am now using.

Jay

>
> Both MD5s should be the same.
>
> HTH,
> pete
>
> Jay Hart wrote:
>> OK, so now I'm downloading and burning the ISOs for opensuse 10.2
>>
>> I can perform a mediacheck during the install, but what I would really like
>> to
>> do is verify the disk is good after I've burned it and prior to using the
>> disk
>> to continue my install. That way I can start with disk 1, get to the disk 2
>> section, insert a known good disk, and continue.  I'd like to do the install
>> this way so that I don't have to burn all five disks, then check them, then
>> do
>> the install. (saves time if I can check each disk as I burn them)
>>
>> Any suggestions to accomplish this?
>>
>> Jay
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