-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 22 November 2003 4:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Having burnt iso to CD I wish to check the result by remaking an iso > file of the CD and running md5sum against on that iso file, but, I seem > to have a problem with the mkisofs part of it,
You can check whether the ISO "burnt true" by just running md5sum -c /mnt/cdrom or a few other methods I'll list below. > mount /mnt/cdrom You use automount don't you? Or supermount? Try without this step, mounting a CD twice will generally result in an error of some sort. > cd /root/tmp > ls > mkisofs -r -J -v -o temp.iso /mnt/cdrom/* > mkisofs 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) > Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc > Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc/install > Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc/install/af > Scanning /mnt/cdrom/doc/install/ar > <snip> > I don't know what autorun.exe is doing here , but is there some way I > can tell mkisofs to ignore it and proceed. I still think it was because the disk was being mounted twice John but I've been wrong before. > Any suggestions welcome. > > John Methods to check md5sums, stolen from various sources over the last few years: The "hard way:" perl -e 'use lib qw(/usr/lib/libDrakX); use detect_devices; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper([ &detect_devices::cdroms() ]), "\n";' The "easy way" for ISOs on hard drive or burned to CD: mkcd --checkdisc <ISO mount point> <md5 file> An even easier way: mkcd --checkmd5 <iso file> This works both with an iso file downloaded on your filesystem (mkcd --checkmd5 /path/to/iso/Mandrake.iso) and on a burnt CD (mkcd --checkmd5 /dev/thedevice). and the ever popular md5sum -c /pathtodevice/pathtoimage HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:12:53 up 2 days, 52 min, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.09 Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/v52OG11CaRuZZSIRAifSAJ0VRaNmSoYWXpNaz5Y+56VRPNDIpgCggdD5 JQeSlpyq/dD9foMLh0F34i0= =SA/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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