Ron Stodden wrote: > How do you check that a just-burned CD is correct? With Linux it's > easy, just compare md5sum <mirror-supplied> with md5sum <iso-image> > with md5sum /dev/cdrom. QED. > > There is a Windows port of md5sum but all it will sumcheck is a > single file, NOT a device. > > Neither will sumcheck recursively a directory structure, which is a > serious oversight, IMHO. Ah, but it will check the iso file. What I do is download the iso, then check the md5sum. If OK, I burn it. So far (keeping fingers crossed), my burns seem to be either successful (the majority by far) or produce an error message. And, if you are downloading a Linux distro to make your first Linux installation, it is hard to do in Linux. And, if you are paranoid, after burning a distro in Windows and installing Linux, you can then check the md5 of the CD under Linux. (The one time I tried this, it didn't work. I suspect it was because (as I found out later), the CD must be unmounted to use md5sum /dev/cdrom, and I think Linux (Mandrake 7.2) has afs or automount installed by default (or I installed it without thinking about it).) Randy Kramer
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