Re: [gNewSense-users] Burning iso - integrity check problem

[Sam Geeraerts]

James Freer wrote:
> So all is well - i'll do an install on my spare machine tomorrow and
> experiment - then install for good on my new machine next week

Awesome. Welcome to the gNewSense community.

> notes--check-iso.txt
> *** Notes for checking iso
>
> ******************************
> * a] check the download      *
> * b] then check burnt CD iso *
> ******************************
>
> 1] download iso to Desktop
>
> 2] copy md5sum to text file
> e.g.
> 897d81b3c2493b4779dea45d6b7f041c  gnewsense-livecd-deltah-i386-2.3.iso
> save as md5sum--gnewsense-2.3
>
> 3] Terminal
> address@hidden:~$ cd Desktop
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$ md5sum gnewsense-livecd-deltah-i386-2.3.iso
> 897d81b3c2493b4779dea45d6b7f041c  gnewsense-livecd-deltah-i386-2.3.iso
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$
>
> 4] copy md5sum to text file and compare.
> If all digits same then OK.

You could also do:

wget http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/MD5SUMS
md5sum -c MD5SUMS

It will complain about missing files, but it compares the iso file you 
have automatically.

> 5] Burn CD... ignore K3B or Brasero integrity checks!
> Put CD in drive and go to terminal
> e.g.
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              19G   15G  2.9G  84% /
> varrun                760M  100K  760M   1% /var/run
> varlock               760M     0  760M   0% /var/lock
> udev                  760M   72K  760M   1% /dev
> devshm                760M   12K  760M   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                   760M   40M  721M   6%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-28-generic/volatile
> gvfs-fuse-daemon       19G   15G  2.9G  84% /home/james/.gvfs
> /dev/scd0             614M  614M     0 100% /media/cdrom0

Just comparing md5sum should be sufficient.

> address@hidden:~/Desktop$ md5sum /dev/scd0
> 897d81b3c2493b4779dea45d6b7f041c  /dev/scd0
> address@hidden:~/Desktop$
>
> copy md5sum to text file and compare.
> If all digits same then OK.
> *eof

(trim big K3b log)
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