Re: Re[2]: FC3 DVD download problems

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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:44:19 -0500, Kunal Shah <kunalv.shah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can download four cd iso files and use a script to make DVD iso out
> of it.
> 
> I did it and it worked perfactly fine. then i burned dvd out of it.
> 
> I am looking for that link. once i will get it i will post it.
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:05 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> > > Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> >
> > >> Hi
> > >>
> > >> Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have
> > >> tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> > >> and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> > >> tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> > >> md5 it never matches the published one.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> > >> can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> > >>
> >
> > > Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect
> > > earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> > > 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> > > that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?
> >
> > Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
> > for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
> > partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
> > restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
> > managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
> > just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
> > ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
> > to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
> > solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
> > dream ;)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maxim.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there any way to make wget overcome
the 2 Gig limit, i like downloading with the command line, i was
thinking of rsync but there are not many rsync mirrors around and i
don't know it's limitations.


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