On Friday 13 April 2001 10:06 pm, you wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2001 10:03 am, michael wrote:
> > On Friday 13 April 2001 03:40 am, you wrote:
> > > michael wrote:
> > > > How do I use md5 sum check?
> > >
> > > Just run:
> > >
> > > md5sum <filename>
> >
> > Thank-you; the rc1.iso file on my hd is good. Now how do I go about
> > checking the cd? when I go into the mount directory it says no such file?
>
> From a terminal : dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum
> replace /dev/cdrom with the device your cd is in if it's not /dev/cdrom.
> It'll take a few minutes to read the cd and do the sum so be patient. The
> sum should be the same as the iso image sum.
Thanks for the clear answer! I actually rendered it moot by burning on to gold
cd's evidently the silver ones just aren't iso-metric ;-)
However, I am checking just for thoroughness' sake!
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pax
-m-
