Re: Testers wanted!

From	"Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.misc
Subject	Re: Testers wanted!
Date	2014-05-30 04:28 -0400
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On Fri, 16 May 2014 17:33:25 -0400, Rod Pemberton  
<dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 05:39:53 -0400, Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> wrote:

>> BTW: to copy a CD to an image under Unix/Linux, use
>>
>> dd if=/dev/cd0 of=image-file.iso bs=2048
>
> Thanks.  I used that to fetch the image.
>
> I'm familiar with 'dd', but was thinking in terms of a Linux
> GUI apps retrieving the .iso, which I'm not yet familiar with.
>
>
> The 'dd' fetched image is definately not either of these:
>
> VL7.0-LIGHT.iso
> VL64-6.0-STD-A0.9.iso
>
> I think I've tracked it down to one of these versions:
>
> VL64-7.0-STD-RC3.5.iso
> VL64-7.0-STD-RC3.6.iso
> VL64-7.0-STD-RC3.7.iso
> VL64-7.0-STD-FINAL.iso
>

Just an FYI.

The image on my CD is a truncated version of
VL64-7.0-STD-FINAL.iso, which is the same as
VL64-7.0-STD-RC3.6.iso, and not 3.7.

The 'dd' command failed to retrieve, or the software used
to burn the image truncated 4096 blank bytes at the end
of the image.  The md5sum and sha1sum on the padded 'dd'
retrieved image matches FINAL.

An intersting thing to note is the padded retrieved image
is *exactly* the same as the burned image.  However, a disk
name was burned to the disk that's not part of the iso image.
That means 'dd' doesn't retrieve *all* of the data that was
written to the disk.

Using 'dd' to read the disk image retrieved the same image
for both a mounted and unmounted drive.  The 'bs=2048' option
speed up the read immensely versus smaller size, but larger
sizes didn't help.

Rod Pemberton

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Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-01 13:41 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 17:08 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 17:15 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-01 18:14 -0400
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 06:23 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 06:13 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 06:38 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 18:23 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-02 18:42 +0000
              Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-02 21:02 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:00 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-03 08:33 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 13:40 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-02 22:02 +0100
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:11 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 10:22 +0100
        Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:03 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 11:02 +0100
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:58 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-03 12:44 +0100
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 13:42 +0000
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 08:21 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:03 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 12:33 +0200
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 10:59 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:02 +0000
        Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 13:12 +0200
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 11:18 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-03 16:14 +0200
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-03 14:28 +0000
  Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-04 21:55 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-05 07:07 +0000
      Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 04:13 -0400
        Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 04:18 -0400
          Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 06:52 -0400
            Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-07 14:49 +0000
              Re: Testers wanted! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-07 20:50 +0100
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-08 08:37 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-05-08 10:50 +0200
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-08 08:55 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-08 10:21 +0100
                Re: Testers wanted! George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2014-05-08 13:43 -0400
    Re: Testers wanted! Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-05-05 20:29 +0200
      Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-05 19:09 -0400
        Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-12 07:06 +0000
          Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-12 16:18 +0000
            Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-12 20:00 -0400
              Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-13 14:24 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-13 17:04 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-14 16:50 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-14 19:04 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-16 09:39 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-16 17:33 -0400
                Re: Testers wanted! Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2014-05-17 20:25 +0000
                Re: Testers wanted! "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-30 04:28 -0400

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