What is a MD5-Sum?

A MD5-Checksum is like a fingerprint of a file. With it you can verify if the file being checked is in its original state (for example: without errors or tampering.)

• Windows users got to download this program first : http://www.etree.org/md5com.html∞
• Copy that program into your windows directory for example: C:\Windows
• Linux users have this program in their distribution already (in 99% of all cases)

To use this programm, open a Shell (Linux) or a Windows prompt, go to the directory where the file you want to check is, and type the following (for example you want to check kanotix 2005/03)



It may take some time calculating the MD5-Sum, it varies from computer to computer. As output you will get the MD5-Sum. Now you should check if your MD5-Sum and the Kanotix-MD5-Sum are the same.
If the MD5's are the same your file is ok, otherwise it could be erroneous.

Here are the sums for the releases:

c85b7c58fdea95dd127fef9db7e12806? *KANOTIX-2005-01.iso
fa61a6e51b46db07184f69dc4fc6d323? *KANOTIX-2005-02.iso
4382c5fc84d1f0ee477dca29b46d097c? *KANOTIX-2005-03.iso

If you download the .md5? file, you can test the ISO easily with

md5sum? -cv *md5?

this works only if both files are in the same directory

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