[expert] ISO image md5sums Question

2002-09-02 Thread Chuck Shirley
Hi, Forgive me if this is too simplistic for the experts, but I am in a bit of a quandry... If a particular iso filesystem image has an md5sum of X and one burns that image to a cdr on /dev/scd0, should not the output of: md5sum /dev/scd0 be also X ?? -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX

Re: [expert] ISO image md5sums Question

2002-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
Not necessarily since in iso format it isn't in the same state (not sure if this is the right word or not) iso format as I understand is not unlike tar where when one file ends another immediately begins. It also may contain a fair amount of other data to tell the computer how it's laid out (Hash