ianalis Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 (edited) Hi! Where can I get the md5 sum of the burned installers, not the iso? Also, can I just do md5sum /mnt/cdrom to get a cd's md5 sum? I remember that rh9 and fedora has the capability of checking its installers for errors. I wonder if mandriva will add that Edited May 15, 2005 by ianalis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 this FAQ item might be of some use, especially the caveat. although i dont know any site that offers the burned disk md5sum. :( ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianalis Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 I see. If I understand correctly, I should do dd if=/dev/cdrom | head -c length_of_iso | md5sum or dd if=/dev/cdrom | head -c `stat --format=%s ISO_image` | md5sum I can then compare the result to the md5 sum of the iso. That is logical since an iso is just the raw bytes to be burned unless there are headers, etc added to it. Salamat! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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