Re: How to check a set of Woody CD's for integrity
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:53:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> 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.
easy:
md5sum /dev/cdrom
(files and devices are often interchangeable in unix/linux)
If you do not have access to a linux/unix machine, I wouldn't know
Frank
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Hugosson-Miller
> "Faber est suae quisque fortunae."
>
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