[ubuntu-za] Edgy CDs for the community

Morgan Collett morgan at penguinlabs.net
Fri Mar 9 10:14:06 GMT 2007


Gustav H Meyer wrote:
> Interesting links. Thanks. The only problem is, how do I check the MD5
> hash of the CD after it was burnt.
>   
That's not trivial unfortunately. dd if=/dev/cdrom | md5sum generally 
fails to give the correct answer as there is padding written to the CD.

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/CdromMd5sumsAfterBurning gives 
some info.

Morgan




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