Re: iso9660 image copy?

From: Bob Tennent (BobT_at_cs.queensu.ca)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: 28 Jul 2003 03:04:22 GMT

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:49:28 GMT, Vwakes wrote:

> Yes. But I was just curious to know. Coz I tried doing a 'md5sum
> /dev/cdrom' of the RH CD 1 but it turned out to be different. That's why
> I was wondering.

I don't know where to find the md5sum of the CD. It's a Pink Tie CD
from Cheapbytes. md5sum /dev/cdrom isn't likely to be accurate because
the inability of my CD reader reliably to read the CD is precisely why
I'm in this mess. The mediacheck option on the CD fails (for the one CD
player, though not for others).

>>No evidence that I can see of an upgrade option (when booting from a
>>diskette).
>
> The only difference, AFAIK, between floppy/CD might be in the kernel
> and initrd images. But I would assume upgrade check routines would be
> built into Anaconda or some place. Anyway, if you can't do this way,
> maybe you can try upgrading using 'up2date' or 'apt'.

The man page for up2date talks of upgrading packages only, not upgrading
the entire distribution.