md5sum of cd-image
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sat Nov 13 13:34:56 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 13:24 +0100, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> Is the instruction on
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/manualtest.html
>
> correct? It say you should run
>
> dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | md5sum
>
> to check the md5sum after you have burned the cd. I've tried to burn the
> cd's in different ways using cdrecord (different pad-size) but no matter
> what, I get a I/O-error in the end and a sum that is correct.
That's OK; you get the I/O error when dd attempts to read past the end
of the data on the CD. The md5sum is good, so the CD is too.
> I've used the cd's on two computers to install and on both, the media
> check first failed and then passed when I used ide=nodma. The
> installations I did using nodma, and they seemed to work well. I've not
> tried to install from them with dma turned on.
Your CDs are OK then.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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