On February 25, 2002 02:00 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: > I just wanna make sure that what I understand to be true is, in fact, true. > If I burn a .iso file to CD, then do "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=<somefile>.iso > bs=1k", then do "md5sum <somefile>.iso", the output should be the same > as the md5sum of the original file. If not, then I have a bad burn. I
Wouldn't it be simpler to use the cmp command instead of md5'ing both of them and then comparing the md5sums? cmp myfile.iso /dev/cdrom David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
