On Sun,29.Mar.09, 20:28:44, Angelin Lalev wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm about to lend my entire DVD set with Debian 5.0 to a friend. I > have no doubt in my friend, but this occasion awakened the curious > person in me and here is the question: > > Is there a way to check that the DVD I give to somebody is the same > that the DVD I'll get later? > > More complex: > > Is there a way to check a written DVD against the checksum of the iso > image written on it? > > (For example to check that Debian 5.0 Lenny Official i386 Binary-1 DVD > I got from someone has written on it > exactly the .iso file from debian.org)
$ md5sum /dev/dvd This should result in *exactly* the same checksum as the iso (which should be the same as the one published by Debian). If they don't match the DVD was not written correctly. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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