----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:29 am Subject: Re: CD Tests in Fedora Install
> 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. Did I miss something, or was it supposed to be an attachment? Rich -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
