quick (and perhaps foolish) question: MD4sum of CD

[Tom Diehl]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Elton Woo wrote:

> On September 26, 2003 12:12 am, Vidyut Luther Vidyut Luther 
> <vid at linuxpowered.com> wrote:
> > make an iso of the CD again and do a md5sum name of new iso ?.
> > usually tho, when you download the iso is where you get the problem, so
> > just check the md5sum of the iso you downloaded to the MD5SUM of the
> > files they gave you.
> I always run "md5sum *.iso" before burning the disk. What I meant,
> was "is there a command to run against the finished disk, before proceeding
> to install (or boot the disk)?"
> 
> But I guess I can do as Chris Kloiber suggested and do it after booting.

"md5sum /dev/cdrom" The problem with that is that it is possible for it
to fail and the cd still be good or so I am told. I always burn in DAO mode
and have never had problems with the above command failing.

HTH,

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