md5sum of a burned cd

DebianTux23 wieseltux23 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 17:03:57 UTC 2005


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2005/10/19, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca>:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:17 +0800, toylet wrote:
> > You don't check the md5sum after buring the ISO, but BEFORE you burnt
> > it.
> >
> > download the iso image.
> > download the md5sum file
> > (now both of them in the same directory)
> > md5sum -c the_md5_sum_file
> >
> > If no error related to the downloaded ISO was reported, burn it at the
> > speed that your burner could handle. Use a reasonably good brand of
> > disc.
> >
> hi, thought I'd responded to this earlier but seems I didn't.
> I'm using HP discs, burning at about 1/2 the max speed of my burner,
> trying (not always succeeding) to keep cpu and disk usage down during
> burning.  I *still* get the occasional coaster, which sucks when I'm in
> the middle of an install and suddenly everything stops working.  I would
> like to be able to check the integrity of the burned cd's after I burn
> them.  Is there a way to do this with md5sum?  Anyone know?
>
> thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> >         I'm having trouble with md5sums of cd's I burn -- they seme to
> >         be
> >         burning pretty well but the sum is not identical to that of
> >         the iso.
> >         I wonder whether I odn't understand md5sum properly?  I do:
> >
> >         cdrecord --dev=ATA:1,1,0 --speed=12 -tao /path/to/breezy.iso
> >         md5sum /dev/hdd /path/to/breezy.iso
> >
>
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