Checksum File

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/23/06, *David Fletcher* <fc at fletchersweb.net
> > <mailto:fc at fletchersweb.net>> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     and find the read-me file that I wrote.
> > 
> > 
> > I did exactly same for FC5-i386-disc1.iso. Got booting OK Got media
> > check passed.  But....
> > For disc2,  selected a button on Nero - meaning "close the disc => no
> > more writing possible on disc" and the disc burning completed
> > successfully. Media check Fails on this and also on disc5. (disc3/4 NDY)
> > 
> > The disc2/5 show all files but I am unable to retrace the method for
> > checking sha1sum on contents of "burned CD" ...
> > any reminders please ... TIA.
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom | sha1sum
> 


I used this and it worked perfectly.
     sha1sum /dev/hdd
Note that hdd is my DVD-RW drive.