Troubles with MD5SUM

[Jim Ruxton]

> 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. 

I thought the whole idea of md5sum was to verify the "actual" file you 
were using



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