[ale] Burning Redhat 7.3 iso's

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:

>>I must admit, I'm stumped at this point. :(
>>
> 
> You and me both. I've made CDs before up to last week
> with the same batch of disks. I'm wondering of the iso's
> are corrupt, so I'm downloading them again.

A couple of suggestions before you download them again.  First if they 
have an md5sum for the files, check it first, that's whole lot faster 
then downloading them again.  Second, mount the iso as follows:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop isofilename.iso /tmp/sometmpmntarea

Then do:

for fn in `find /tmp/sometmpmnt/area -print`;
file $fn || echo $fn failed
done

If there's something wrong with the iso, the above file command will 
fail on some file along the way.  Obviously this will take a while, but 
it's another way to test the integrity of the iso file, although it's 
not as accurate as md5sum verification.


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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