Carl> Okay *just* in case it IS my disks that are at
Carl> fault I want to grap another copy of disk 2.
Carl> Can anyone suggest where I can go and get it in
Carl> less than 6 hours? (I've got cox and ncftp).
http://www.linuxiso.org/ has ISO images of all standard
distros and good throughput. That's where I got my RH
7.2 images.
Carl> OR can anyone tell me how to run a md5sum on
Carl> the disk image of a CD? other words if I have a
Carl> disk in /mnt/cdrom can I do a md5sum of the
Carl> whole mount point?
You need to md5sum the device
md5sum /dev/cdrom
should do it for you, assuming /dev/cdrom points to the
device (i.e., it's probably a symlink to /dev/hdb or
/dev/hdc).
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Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ
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