At 5:26 PM +0100 6/22/06, Paul Howarth wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 10:36 AM +0100 6/22/06, Paul Howarth wrote: >> ... >>> What you need are the ISO files used to create the CDs. If you never had >>> the ISO files, you can create them from the CDs but that's a non-trivial >>> process so we'll not go into it unless necessary. >> ... >> >> Won't dd'ing the cds onto files do it? It's what I've done. > >It will but you might get additional garbage at the end of the file that >causes the SHA1SUM to be wrong (you do check this, don't you ;-) ?). >This is the same problem that causes mediacheck to fail on some hardware. Actually, checksumming is the main reason I do it. Via your isograb script you told us about a bit of magic, isosize, to use if the drive returns extra data. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
