FC2 installation question

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:19:03 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote:

> I'm needing to use the speakup version of the FC2 disk set.  I've 
> downloaded iso's with rsync -cvt 
> www.linux-speakup.org::ftp/speakup/disks/fedora/current/*.iso . <cr>. 
> Downloading MD5SUM from the same directory and doing md5sum -c MD5SUM gets 
> information back that all isos are ok.  The cd burner I have is an 
> HL-DT-ST 40/40 and though it can burn iso's I make with mkisofs with 
> subdirectories and text files in them, these FC2 iso's never all pass disk 
> integrity checks or install error free. 

How do you burn the isos? With cdrecord? Which command-line options
do you use?

> I can mount the iso's, but what 
> find command with md5sum could I use to check all files on those isos? 

None, except for an RPM-based check of all packages (rpm -Kv
filename). But you can verify the MD5 checksum of the burnt CD, which
must contain the unmodified ISO data. Provided that the ISO image was
burnt correctly, you could "md5sum /dev/cdrom" (which fails only if
the CD ends with run-out sectors) or use the "readcd" command to get
back the ISO image. If all that fails, "dd" should be able to read the
ISO image again, too.

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