burning CD's

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Submitted by linuxawy on Sun, 08/03/2009 - 08:26.
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Please guys anyone will burn cd's take care of the following notes:

  • BEFORE you start burning, make sure that your source CD is running fine by checking its md5sum as said down on this page.
  • Don't burn on a speed higher than 24X, u can make it less than that depending on your hardware.
  • While you are burning, check the cd's that you burnt by checking its md5sum, If you are short in time, at least check 25% or 20% of it. If you found errors then you'll have to check them all and mark the bad ones. If the damaged CD's are more than 5% of what you burnt then stop immediately and get the rest of the blanks with you tomorrow.

How to check the md5sum:

Checking a cd's md5sum:

  1. put the cd in the cdrom and open a terminal.
  2. type the following command:

md5sum /dev/cdrom

  1. the output of this command should be exactly:

ace23d1579431ebe767ab8eac25cdbc4   /dev/cdrom

  1. If it's different then stop burning immediatly.

Checking a .iso file:

Same way, just change the command to be:

md5sum /path/to/the/file.iso
The output should be the same string as above (of course /dev/cdrom will be changes to where your file is).