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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:42:22
Message-Id: 58965d8a0911180736o2745aee2yf46af8ac3f78d9e6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image by "José Romildo Malaquias"
1 2009/11/18 José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo@×××××.com>:
2 > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:54:20PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >> On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> > My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he
6 >> > downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now wants
7 >> > to get the iso back without downloading it again, but he has
8 >> > access to the checksum/filesize of the original iso from the
9 >> > place he downloaded it, and when he makes an iso, the
10 >> > checksum/filesize does not match.
11 >>
12 >> In my experience that happens because one or the other of the
13 >> images has "extra" garbage blocks past the end of the actual
14 >> ISO filesystem image. If you look at the ISO filesystem header
15 >> and find the actual size of the image, it's probably smaller
16 >> than the "image file". If you only compare the bytes within
17 >> the ISO image itself, I bet the two will match.
18 >
19 > In fact the size of the iso images obtained with dd and with cdread are
20 > a little bit larger than the original one. The iso image obtained by
21 > mkisofs on the mounted disc (with the udf filesystem type) are of the
22 > right size, but still not identical to the original.
23
24 This webpage has some info about comaring ISO images to burnt discs
25 and a possible solution:
26 http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/CdromMd5sumsAfterBurning

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image "José Romildo Malaquias" <j.romildo@×××××.com>