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From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:16:45
Message-Id: 4B02CC0C.6000600@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image by Grant Edwards
1 On 11/17/2009 10:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2009-11-17, Jos? Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have
6 >> deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but
7 >> reading the image from disk does not give me an identical image to the
8 >> original one.
9 >>
10 >> I have used the commands
11 >>
12 >> $ readcd -vvv dev=/dev/dvd f=image.iso
13 >>
14 >> and
15 >>
16 >> $ dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.iso
17 >>
18 >> With both commands, the resulting image is 99.9% identical to the
19 >> original one.
20 >>
21 >
22 > If you deleted the original, how do you know? the one you're
23 > creating from the DVD isn't identical?
24 >
25 >
26 >> Is there anything I can do to get an image identical to the
27 >> original one?
28 >>
29 >
30 > Since you still seem to have a copy of the original ISO, just
31 > use it.
32 >
33 My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he downloaded a
34 large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now wants to get the iso back
35 without downloading it again, but he has access to the checksum/filesize
36 of the original iso from the place he downloaded it, and when he makes
37 an iso, the checksum/filesize does not match.
38
39 Marcus

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image "José Romildo Malaquias" <j.romildo@×××××.com>