On 09-11-19 00:11:27, Reg Clemens wrote: > This may seem to be a stupid question, but . > > I can download a iso image of Fedora, then do a sha256sum of the file > and I get the result shown in the SHASUM file. > > I can burn a DVD with k3b, ask for it to verify the checksum, and > have it say the checksum is OK. > > But if I just do > sha256sum /dev/cdrom > > I get a result which is NOT the published sum, even tho k3b said the > sum was going to be OK. > > So what am I doing wrong? (and yes cdrom and dvd both point to sr0) The kernel often copies a bit more data that was requested from a CD / DVD (I don't understand why, but I don't think dd is a workaround). What I do is just compare the CD / DVD with the original file with `cmp dev/dvd my.iso` and I usually get an error like "EOF on my.iso", which means that all the data in the original file matches the DVD. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines