Once upon a time,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>do you realize that redhat uses checksums or signatures to check the 
>validity of their CD's?
>
>try to burn a redhat image with the -pad option which adds a chunk of 0's 
>to the end of the image and try to boot it.

It'll boot and run just fine.  The checksum is simply an optional
integrity check (you can bypass it by choosing "Skip" when it prompts to
test your CD/DVD).

>I seriously doubt if redhat tells you how to how to generate such a 
>checksum/signature.

You are seriously wrong then.  The tool is in the anaconda package, and
there are docs on using it both there and many places on the web.
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