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| - | ====== Check if a File you Downloaded | + | ====== |
| - | If you download the Tiny Core iso, or another file, you can check if it has been corrupted by verifying the md5sum. If the md5sum is different, your download has been corrupted, and you'll need to download the file again. | + | If you download the Tinycore |
| - | To check the md5sum while running Linux, open the terminal and type: | + | To check the md5sum while running |
| < | < | ||
| md5sum name</ | md5sum name</ | ||
| - | For example if you had tinycore_3.6.iso in / | + | For example if you had the file [[http:// |
| < | < | ||
| - | md5sum | + | md5sum |
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| + | Compare the md5sum generated, with the one on the site you downloaded Tinycore from. | ||
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| + | In case of the example above, the output of the //md5sum// command should be: | ||
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| + | < | ||
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| + | For our example, the reference value to compare with, will be in file [[http:// | ||
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| + | If the md5sum is different, the file has been corrupted during the download. | ||
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| + | To fix things, delete the corrupted file and try to download again. | ||
| - | Compare the md5sum generated, with the one on the site you downloaded Tiny Core from. | ||
