On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:35 pm > Subject: CD Tests in Fedora Install > > > The Media test in Fedora Core's Installer, at least since FC3, is > > broken > > and its results thus unreliable either way. Don't use it. In fact, > > the > > FC maintainers are going to remove that test in future versions. It > > was > > supposed to have been removed from FC4, but was missed. > > Can you recommend a good test, from linux and/or windows that would > ensure the iso has been burned correctly?
Here is something I wrote a month ago, when I discovered that the "check the burned disk" code in K3b was slow and also did not check DVDs properly. See attached shell script. It takes advantage of the fact that the source file and the burned CD are both present on the same computer at the same time. So there is no need to waste time computing MD5 sums. Just compare the two files byte-by-byte. Stopping when you get to the end, as delimited by 2kB blocks. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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