md5sum of cd-image

Dennis Bjorklund db at zigo.dhs.org
Sat Nov 13 12:24:57 UTC 2004


Is the instruction on

  http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/manualtest.html

correct? It say you should run

  dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k | md5sum

to check the md5sum after you have burned the cd. I've tried to burn the
cd's in different ways using cdrecord (different pad-size) but no matter
what, I get a I/O-error in the end and a sum that is correct.

I've used the cd's on two computers to install and on both, the media
check first failed and then passed when I used ide=nodma. The
installations I did using nodma, and they seemed to work well. I've not 
tried to install from them with dma turned on.

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/Dennis Björklund




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