On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:06:55 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> So the CD itself and checkisomd is all you need to verify it, even >> after several years, and you've forgot where you put its original >> md5sum. . . > > I think you are misunderstanding the situation, or perhaps, I > misunderstand what you intend to say. Computing a checksum, does not, by > itself, verify the correctness of the CD. . . But an > md5sum of a CD, alone, is useless.
Maybe some more readings, if you care, can help change your thinking. - Do you know that on RedHat's cd boot menu, there is an entry to verify the integrity of CD? - Do you know how they did it? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
