FC6 vs FC6 respin? how to tell?

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Mar 5 21:48:51 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:25 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> 
> > CD volume label; have you checked?
> 
> i just ran "volname" and got "FC/6 i386 DVD", and i've also verified
> that this DVD *is* just an original FC6, not a respin.  would the
> respin have had a different volname?  that would pretty much
> settle this.  thanks.

For the original i386 DVD:

[root at prophead Fedora]# isoinfo -d -i FC6-i386-DVD.iso
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: FC/6 i386 DVD
Volume set id: FC/6 i386
Publisher id: 
Data preparer id: 
Application id: FC/6 i386
Copyright File id: 
Abstract File id: 
Bibliographic File id: 
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 1721287
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 353
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Eltorito validation header:
    Hid 1
    Arch 0 (x86)
    ID ''
    Key 55 AA
    Eltorito defaultboot header:
        Bootid 88 (bootable)
        Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
        Load segment 0
        Sys type 0
        Nsect 4
        Bootoff 162 354

For the respin:

[root at prophead Fedora]# isoinfo -d -i FC-20070111-6-i386-DVD.iso
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: Fedora Core 6 i386 DVD
Volume set id: 
Publisher id: 
Data preparer id: 
Application id: MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD
CD-R/DVD CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING
Copyright File id: 
Abstract File id: 
Bibliographic File id: 
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 1512909
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 273
Joliet with UCS level 3 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Eltorito validation header:
    Hid 1
    Arch 0 (x86)
    ID ''
    Key 55 AA
    Eltorito defaultboot header:
        Bootid 88 (bootable)
        Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
        Load segment 0
        Sys type 0
        Nsect 4
        Bootoff 112 274

There's several differences there, but the most glaring one is that the
original has a volume ID of "FC/6 i386 DVD", while the respin has a
volume ID of "Fedora Core 6 i386 DVD".

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