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Re: howto verify burn?



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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