(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

Test Puppy 1.0.4 CD

tests the md5sum of a Puppy 1.0.4 CD

this puts a program called md5sum-cd104
in my-documents ... put a Puppy 1.0.4 CD in your drive and click the program to test whether the CD burned ok or not

the script assumes your cd drive is /dev/cdrom

Note: i haven't tested this program (i do not have a Puppy CD)

Lobster · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 01:13 Post subject: Re: md5 test for Puppy 1.0.4

LOL - a bit of a catch 22 question - is it the dotpup or the CD . . .
first off I got an error (but it was too quick- it had not checked)

Using MUT (thanks Jesse) I was able to establish that my CD was in fact
/dev/dvd

Loaded the shell script (that the dotpup created) into leafpad (just dragged it in)

and changed this:

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

i didn't test it on a Puppy 1.0.4 cd, but i think it should work

if it says the cd is ok, you are pretty sure it actually is ok

if it says it's not ok, it might still be ok
there might be a few bad bytes but they may be unimportant bytes ... if even 1 byte is different, it will say it is not ok
it might be reading some padding bytes which would change the md5sum (it shouldn't though ... that's the reason for reading it with dd)

this will only work for the standard Puppy 1.0.4 iso ... you can make it work for other Puppy iso's if you change the md5sum in the script, and also the count (the count is the size of the iso file divided by 2048)