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Raman

I know this has been discussed elsewhere, but I am unable to find the citation.

Therefore, I ask how one might do a MD5 sum in Puppy? Exactly how.

Thanks.

Hail Puppy!

Raman

MU · Posted: Tue 06 May 2008, 17:38 Post subject:

Hi Raman,

simply type:
md5sum test.iso > test.iso-md5.txt

To veryify a downloaded file:
md5sum test.iso

Mark

jonyo · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2727

I type md5sum(then 2 spaces)(file name & location), then press enter in a console. Then I compare the result with the text.

Raman · Posted: Tue 06 May 2008, 17:50 Post subject: How to do a MD5 sum

Thank you.

That does it.

Hail Puppy!

Raman

erikson · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 735 Location: Ghent, Belgium

One can also calculate the md5sum of a (data) CD.

1. Insert the CD.
2. Find the devicename of the CD drive using Menu > Filesystem > Pmount (e.g. on my laptop it's /dev/hdc). You may mount it, or not, it doesn't matter.
3. In console (rxvt), type md5sum /dev/hdc (or whatever name found in 2.). The calculation may take a while (watch the drive's LED).

This gives an end-to-end validation for CDs burned from downloaded iso images.

It's also useful to write the md5sum on every written CD (e.g. for backups). This allows validation of CD integrity months or years later.

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Flash · Posted: Thu 08 May 2008, 23:50 Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that a md5 sum calculated from a CD won't match the md5 sum calculated from the iso file before it was burned to the CD. Personally I never bother to check. Shocked

erikson · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 735 Location: Ghent, Belgium

rodrigt · Joined: 04 Jun 2008 Posts: 74 Location: Boston, USA

I suggest this thread be placed as a "sticky", somewhere where newbies (like me) can easily find it. (Next I'll go search how to install an .sfs file, which I suggest is another subject deserving to become a "sticky" message.)

Jonyo wrote:
> I type md5sum(then 2 spaces)(file name & location), then press enter in a console. Then I compare the result with the text.

Thank you, indeed this works and here is an example:
# md5sum /tmp/ff3_pack.sfs
93b0be3ba2f6240180ee345d0c1b8251 /tmp/ff3_pack.sfs

ecube · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 88 Location: Västerås, Sweden

erikson,

When I try to compare the md5sum of a downloaded ISO-file with the md5sum of the burned CD I get the following confusing results.

The downloaded file is

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101842944 2009-08-16 07:32 puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.29.6-v423.iso

Its md5sum is equal to the value in md5sums.txt (dae903beab483deac8cb30cf0777bea8)

Applying md5sum to /dev/sr0 yields
# md5sum /dev/sr0
285946f67e2a9b8bb3b6d8680ceac58d /dev/sr0

To check that no padding is present in the CD the md5sum is calculated for the number of bytes of the ISO-file. The result is the identical.

# dd if=/dev/sr0 | head -c 101842944 | md5sum
285946f67e2a9b8bb3b6d8680ceac58d -
198904+0 records in
198904+0 records out
101838848 bytes (102 MB) copied, 85,5978 s, 1,2 MB/s

Finally the ISO-file is compared to the content of the CD. No difference detected.

# dd if=/dev/sr0 | cmp puppy-4.3beta1-k2.6.29.6-v423.iso
cmp: EOF on -
198904+0 records in
198904+0 records out
101838848 bytes (102 MB) copied, 84,5991 s, 1,2 MB/s

An explanation would be most welcome.

Regards,

Olov

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

Ttuuxx has a handy little gizmo-gadget-widget thingy
called gtkhash.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1344594816&t=32700

Bruce B

Olov,

Erikson doesn't post here any more.

The ISO and CD used to have same md5sum* before Puppy dropped cdrecord and started using wodim.

I never got one match with wodim. I installed cdrecord and they match again.

Bruce

* if burned well and session closed

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

wodim works well with mdsum, but you need to reload disc after burning if using kernel 2.21.x - 2.29.x. Seems to work ok in kernel 2.30.x.

Is it possible to check md5sum if disc is not closed (multisession) ?

Sigmund

Bruce B · Posted: Mon 17 Aug 2009, 06:41 Post subject:

Sigmund,

Good question and my answer is: I never tested the md5sum on an open session disc.

I lost some important data on a UDF a long time ago. Since then, I decide if the data is more valuable than the cost of the media, close the session.

An exception would be intentionally making a Puppy disc for running as a multi session CD.

Bruce

green_dome · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 189

ttuuxxx also has a few .PET packages that are command line sum calculators. In the post it mentions these checksums:
md5
sha1
sha256
tiger
whirlpool

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262030#262030