bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > > don't match the output of > > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom > > Not really an expert on what happens on cds but I belive it has something to > do with the some extra nulls packing it out to the end of a 2048 block or > something like that. > > In any case the actual cd generally has a different md5sum than the iso. > > One way: > cat /dev/cdrom > test.iso > md5sum test.iso > md5sum original.iso
Isn't md5sum /dev/cdrom equivalent to cat /dev/cdrom >test.iso md5sum test.iso ? Craig
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