On 12/30/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's not an answer to the question I asked.
>
> Okay okay. Sorry. You said:
>
> "Has anyone thought through the process of doing the equivalent of
> RedHat/Fedora "mediacheck" but reading the CD from an already running
> Linux system rather than booting into the installation RAMdisk system?"
>
> I can first take that as "has anyone thought through the process", but
> you probably don't want an answer to that actual question you asked.
> Disregarding that, you're asking for "the equivalent of RedHat/Fedora
> "mediacheck"" without booting from the disk. I thought the answer I
> gave was an answer to that question. How do you know that it's not?
>
Because the mediacheck when booted from the disk uses only information
present on the disk. The computer is not connected to a network and
can not use checksum values from some external site.
As a side thought, consider the difficulty of including the checksum
value itself in the data to be checksummed. You can't change one
without the other.
carl
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