On Nov 14, 2:26pm, Eric Thelin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Carl Parrish 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
>
> md5sum /your/path/file.iso /dev/cdrom
>
> This will give the md5sum of the iso file and then read the cd itself to
> get the md5sum. If the burn worked perfectly then these two will be the
> same.
Are you sure? Won't ``md5sum /dev/cdrom'' also include the CD's table
of contents in its computations whereas ``md5sum /your/path/file.iso''
won't? Also, what about multi-session CDs?
Kevin
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