Re: [newbie] Checksumming CDs

2004-04-19 Thread John Rye 
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:33:08 -0400
Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:20:10 +1200
> John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Could someone remind me ?
> >
> >I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it
> 
> If you are doing this from Linux, then
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | md5um
> 
> If you want to validate an .iso file before burning it, then substitute
> the file name for /dev/cdrom.
> 

That's the one,

Thanks Guy

Cheers

John


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Re: [newbie] Checksumming CDs

2004-04-18 Thread Guy Rouillier 
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:20:10 +1200
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>Could someone remind me ?
>
>I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it

If you are doing this from Linux, then

dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | md5um

If you want to validate an .iso file before burning it, then substitute
the file name for /dev/cdrom.

>
>Thx 
>
>John
>
>


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Guy Rouillier



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[newbie] Checksumming CDs

2004-04-18 Thread John Rye 

Could someone remind me ?

I need to compute the md5sum of a cd before I duplicate it

Thx 

John


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