On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:56:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One of the things I still haven't figured out but am rather curious about > is that if I download a Red Hat CD image, use "cdrecord" to burn it, and > then boot and run a "mediacheck", it will pass just fine. But if I do > > diff -q /dev/cdrom /path/to/cdimage.iso > > then I get a mismatch (/dev/cdrom ends prematurely). I don't get how it can > pass Red Hat's media check but not diff properly. > > Here there be dragons.
Here there be explanations... ;-} http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-9 I had this problem also, when using the "cdrecord" default track-at-once mode; by adding "-dao" to the argument list, one should be able to make CDs the same size as the ISO image file. --Jay++ --------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support Hewlett-Packard Company - ZKO2-3/N30 (603) 884-0301 110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua NH 03062 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss