Re: How to check a set of Woody CD's for integrity
Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Peter Hugosson-Miller (pehu@im.se) [020917 11:38]:
> > I have just purchased a complete set of 14 Woody CDs (7 binary, 7
>
> > Does anyone have a suggestion of how to check the integrity of the
> > complete set? I first thought of a recursive directory listing,
> which
>
> > can't figure out a foolproof method myself. My only vague idea was
> to
> > make a chacksum of all the files on the disk, but I don't know how
> (yet)
> > and I'd need som real checksums to check them against ;-).
>
> Get the checksums for the entire disc images from the cdimage site and
>
> check that. Don't bother with trying to check each individual file
> and
> directory, just check that the whole image matches. If it doesn't,
> then
> think about digging deeper to find out what differs, or simply contact
>
> the vendor to see why they differ, and if your checksum matches what
> they think it should be.
Thanks for your swift answer, Vineet.
OK, I think I can find the checksums from the cdimage site, but I
wouldn't know where to start to check them against CD's that are already
burned, i.e not CD-images. Perhaps you could point me in the right
direction.
Thanks in advance.
--
Best regards,
Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Faber est suae quisque fortunae."
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