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--- wiki:md5sum [2011/04/22 17:47] – Guy
+++ wiki:md5sum [2012/08/28 17:17] (current) – kennedywalker
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-====== Check if a File you Downloaded has been Corrupted using the md5sum ======
+====== Use md5sum to Check if a File has been Corrupted ======
-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, the file has been corrupted, and you'll need to download it again.
+If you download the Tinycore iso, or another file, you can check if it has been corrupted by verifying the md5sum.
-To check the md5sum while running Tiny Core or another Linux distribution, open the terminal and type:
+To check the md5sum while running Tinycore or another Linux distribution, open the terminal and type:
 <code>cd path
 md5sum name</code>
-For example if you had tinycore_3.6.iso in /home/tc/dl, you would type:
+For example if you had the file [[http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/x86/archive/4.5.6/TinyCore-4.5.6.iso|tinycore-4.5.6.iso]] in /home/tc/dl, you would type:
 <code>cd /home/tc/dl
-md5sum tinycore_3.6.iso</code>
+md5sum tinycore-4.5.6.iso</code>
+Compare the md5sum generated, with the one on the site you downloaded Tinycore from.
+In case of the example above, the output of the //md5sum// command should be:
+<code>3da0ad44a0f0603542d9e1034eca9d2d  TinyCore-4.5.6.iso</code>
+For our example, the reference value to compare with, will be in file [[http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/x86/archive/4.5.6/TinyCore-4.5.6.iso.md5.txt]]
+If the md5sum is different, the file has been corrupted during the download.
+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.

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