I believe you'd have to do the md5 against the .iso, not the burned cd. If it burned without problems already, most likely you shouldn't need to check the sum, unless you're worried about something being added in that could be a threat?
At 08:21 AM 11/14/2001, you wrote:
>How do you get the md5sum of an ISO CD? I just burned a CD and want to compare the md5sum against the image I have on disk. If I type in md5sum dir/ though of course that doesn't work and if I try dir/* it just gives me the sums of each file on the disk but not the whole thing.
>
>BTW I *just* found out that cdrecord is a command line burning tool. I *LOVE* it.
>
>Carl P.
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