Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-12-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:35:10PM +0100, Vera Friederichs wrote: I have tried several procedures (only with CD2): [...] dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1k count=8656864 | md5sum I just noticed that the count is wrong - surely the size of your CD isn't 8.6 GB? :) Here are the sizes (in kb) of my 3.0r0

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-12-02 Thread Vera Friederichs
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:49:02 +0100 Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:35:10PM +0100, Vera Friederichs wrote: I have tried several procedures (only with CD2): [...] dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1k count=8656864 | md5sum I just noticed that the count is wrong -

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-12-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:35:55PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: http://http.us.debian.org/dists/woody/Release http://http.us.debian.org/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages I think debootstrap may even do this verification for you, and you mentioned the first CD is known good. That

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 07:51, Jochen Voss wrote: Is this a good way to check wheter the CDs are official Debian CDs? http://http.us.debian.org/dists/woody/Release http://http.us.debian.org/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages I think debootstrap may even do this verification for you, and you

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-11-29 Thread Vera Friederichs
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:58:46 +0100 Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, mount the CD. Just working on the unmounted device doesn't always seem to work. Then, try one of two things: cat /dev/cdrom | md5sum Apparently, this is preferable to md5sum /dev/cdrom because cat does a

How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-11-28 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, a friend of mine recently bought some Debian woody CDs. Because the CDs do not look very official she wants to verify that these are really Debian CDs and not something trojanized. I suggested to her to compare the output of md5sum /dev/cdrom with the corresponding values from

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:51:02PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Is this a good way to check wheter the CDs are official Debian CDs? Yes! Except md5sum should be called differently, see below. The result was that the checksums did match for CD #1, but did NOT match for the remaining CDs. When she