Re: Booting to floppy first?

Nick Moffitt <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 10:32:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
begin  The ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen  quotation:
> Rusty Ambrose writes:
> > I have a Linux system that I verified the lnx-bbc.iso file (not on
> > the disk, hard drive rather) and it matched.  I tried to do an
> > MD5SUM on the disk, but could only do the individual files, not
> > directories...how do I do the entire disc?
> 
> You need to checksum the block device which corresponds to the drive
> where the disc is inserted.  Which device that is depends on how
> your system is set up.  For example, it could be /dev/hdc for an
> ATAPI CD-ROM drive which is the secondary master ATAPI device in
> your system.

	Most likely /dev/cdrom would suffice.

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