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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:11:33 -0600
From:      Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To:        legg@iastate.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Verifying CDs with ISO image
Message-ID:  <20011206001130.A17899@northernbrewer.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011205150415.22193B-100000@isua1.iastate.edu>; from legg@iastate.edu on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:08:50PM -0600
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011205150415.22193B-100000@isua1.iastate.edu>

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legg@iastate.edu (legg@iastate.edu) wrote:

> I downloaded the ISOs for 4.4 yesterday.
> 
> My CD burner, which is controlled by an inferior commercial OS, was almost
> finished creating the CD when the system spontaneously rebooted.  When
> opening the CD, the files seem to be intact.
> 
> I still have my ISOs and CHECKSUM.MD5 on my FreeBSD 4.3 box.  Is there
> any way I can verify the integrity of this CD on my FreeBSD box?  My
> FreeBSD box has a read-only CD-ROM.

Sure, try:
# cat /dev/cd0c | md5

or this:
# cat /dev/cd0c | diff iso-image.iso -

(Of course, replace /dev/cd0c with the proper device name of your CD-ROM.)

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com

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