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--- wiki:md5sum [2011/05/08 04:52] – Guy
+++ wiki:md5sum [2012/08/28 17:17] (current) – kennedywalker
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-====== Using md5sum to Check if a File has been Corrupted ======
+====== 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 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 Tiny Core from.
+Compare the md5sum generated, with the one on the site you downloaded Tinycore from.
-If the md5sum is different, the file has been corrupted, and it needs to be download again.
+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.

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