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Originally Posted by Yourcat
Evil world, I wonder how one can get this one wrong. I hope that https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM is 100% correct. At least it should be a starting point to for md5 so people may check what they downloaded before install. |
long and wordy for a non-technical person, but I don't see any glaring errors in that one.
Now all you have to do is abstract it as much as possible without losing technical accuracy so our non-technical users can make use of it.
Place in its own thread here, and I'll link to it when it is ready.
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Some points to keep in mind while working on your project:
*) We are nearing 10,000 downgrades and only 3 corrupt file reports.
*) The factory initial firmware image is checksum'd overall and its component parts each checksum'd and signed.
The updater used to install it (there are two in the firmware) checks those checksums and signatures before using the file.
The error message-number may be a bit funky as illustrated in this thread, but the Kindle will not use a corrupt file.
(error 006 is more common from a corrupt update_*.bin file)
*) try to keep it shorter than the install directions if you can please.