What is an MD5-Sum?
An
md5? checksum is like the fingerprint of a file, with which you can verify that the file being checked is in its original state, that is, without errors or tampering.
- Windows users may need to download this program, available from here: md5com info∞
and copy the program into the windows directory, normally: C:\Windows
- Linux users have this program in their distribution already (in 99% of all cases)
To use this program: open a shell (Linux) or a Windows prompt, go to the directory where the file you want to check is located, and type the following (for example you want to check Kanotix 2005-03)
md5sum KANOTIX-2005-03.iso
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 the generated
md5sum? and the Kanotix-
md5sum? are the same.
If the
md5?'s are the same your file is ok; otherwise, it could be erroneous.
Here are the
md5? sums for the Kanotix releases:
c85b7c58fdea95dd127fef9db7e12806 *KANOTIX-2005-01.iso
fa61a6e51b46db07184f69dc4fc6d323 *KANOTIX-2005-02.iso
4382c5fc84d1f0ee477dca29b46d097c *KANOTIX-2005-03.iso##
c10e91895ad111553a6ad765c16f17a1 *KANOTIX-2006-Easter-RC4.iso
187045288e0108a38e09642b78583c0d *KANOTIX-2006-VDR-RC6.iso
If you download the .
md5? file, you can test the ISO easily with
this works only if both files are in the same directory
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Md5Sum
