OT: fao: iso wranglers, md5 in install Media?

[Niels de Vos]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/01/12 11:49, Niels de Vos wrote:
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>> The "mediacheck" in the installer checks for the embedded md5-sum in
>> the application-data field in the ISO-header. Anaconda used to contain
>> the utilities that are now separately available in the isomd5sum
>> package. You should be able to use this to check the md5sum of the
>> downloaded .iso, before you burn it.
>
>
> Not the problem,
> the user feels the burned media, should match the iso.
> I tried to explain, it's difficult.

Yes, that is what mediacheck in the installer does. As an alternative
you can use isomd5sum to read the burned media and check the md5sum
without booting into the installer. The md5sum is created by reading
the whole disc (except for the area where the md5sum is stored), if
that check is successful, you can trust that the burning went fine.

I hope I understood your question correctly and this answer helps you :)