Troubles with MD5SUM

[James Knott]

Jim Ruxton wrote:
> I'm trying to verify rh9 .isos on cds I've burned but I keep getting I/O 
> errors or it just doesn't finish. I've downloaded them from RH's ftp 
> server and checking them on my harddrive they are fine. Any ideas why I 
> would have trouble with md5sum on CDs?  I'm doing :
> md5sum /dev/cdrom

Generally, you run md5sum against the ISO files, before you burn the CD. 
  You're getting errors, because the CD does not match what it's expecting.


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