9.2 Ftp Up

http://www.planetsuse.org/

bit more info here.

Originally posted by Wilson Phillips@Jan 9 2005, 21:11
Then they must have really cut a lot of stuff out for the FTP download.

There's a lot missing but still plenty to get up and running and then add extras with YAST.... it's nice to have the bulk of the distro on DVD

Did some Googling. The answer was right under our noses, at PlanetSuSE.

http://disruptive.org.uk/20050109.dvd/index.html

That's the list of differences between the Retail DVDs and the FTP DVD. After reading that... I'm spending the money.

~~ Andrew D.
linuxnoob@wi.rr.com

Wow! That is a BIG list.

Ok i am not sure but cant we just get all of those things through yast or download them?
probably not all of them but more than half.
ido we need to install them our selves to get the bennefit of the retail version, or does the retail version offer more?
I saw a mention of 9.3, I feel that it is worth a purchase of an upgrade to get the stuff that is not in the FTP, but why not wait and see what Novell does with it, and if it is worth purchasing the 10.0, Know what I mean?
I love SuSE dont get me wrong, but I plan on trying lots of distrobutions to see what they offer.
I am almost XP free besides my gaming, for I have one killer fragging machine.
I do everything else in SuSE and love the 64 bit power and variety it offers.
Can you really convince me to give Novell any of my money?
I worked in an IT position that used Novell and it sucked! I love where I work now for it is W2K3 and linux, no Novell BS. it was a constant headache, for novell worked on windows servers anyway.
what does the purchased version give me that I can't download? (really courious)
I looked at the list and it seems trival to me. Although I did not know what most of those packages do.
I am just a geek that seems to get what I want out of the free version :blink:

From what I know, the idea is that you will install from the DVD.iso and then add missing packages later (if you need them). Synaptic/apt would make that pretty painless, aside from the bandwidth needed.

Originally posted by beerorchid@Jan 10 2005, 07:13
Ok i am not sure but cant we just get all of those things through yast or download them?

yes you can, nearly all of them are available by ftp

Torrent here:

http://chbrosso.free.fr/SUSE-Linux-9...VD.iso.torrent

News and comments at Distrowatch Weekly herescroll down for comments)

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=current

Need some help please. I download the dvd iso fine with wget but when it gets to 2 Gb it quits miserably. Using:

migtei@unit0:~/tmp/SUSE-9.2-ISO-DVD> wget ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/distribucions/su...9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
--16:36:08-- ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/distribucions/su...9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
=> `SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso'
Resolviendo ftp.caliu.info... hecho.
Conectando con ftp.caliu.info[147.83.91.30]:21... conectado.
Identificándose como anonymous ... ¡Dentro!
==> SYST ... hecho. ==> PWD ... hecho.
==> TYPE I ... hecho. ==> CWD /pub/distribucions/suse/suse/i386/9.2/iso ... hecho.
==> EPSV ... failed. ==> PASV ... hecho. ==> RETR SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso ... hecho.
Longitud: -931,424,256 (probablemente)

[ <=> ] 2,147,476,352 51.26K/s Superado el límite de tamaño de fichero

which means:
"The limit size for the file has been exceeded"

According to /etc/fstab the partition is reiserfs:

/dev/hdb9 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2

And I have wget-1.8.2-335 , reiserfs-3.6.9-68 , and kernel 2.4.21-202-default on a "wonderfully working for very long" Suse 9.0 .

I would like to use what I already have and continue with wget -c

¿Is this limit because of wget or reiserfs?
Thanks

UPDATE:
After some looking it might be a bug of wget (curl also seems to have the same problem) or due to ulimit user restrictions. So here is the outut of my ulimit -a :

migtei@unit0:~> ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited ###THIS SHOULD BE OK!
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 1535
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

I suppose all is well according to this.
So some user says retrieving with the standard ftp program should work, although I dont know if this would work.:
ftp reget remote-file [local-file]

Someone also says it is a limit on the server side (apache). If that is the case I would report them.
?Any clues? Thanks

UPDATE

IT WORKS! GOOD OLD BARE STANDARD OUT-OF-THE-BOX ftp restarts the retrieval. In case someone encounters this problem this is how I didi it:

Fire up ftp on a console sitting on the directory with the partly loaded file (SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso):

ftp

You get a prompt, then issue the open command to connect to the site you want, in my case:

ftp> open ftp.caliu.info

After login a anonymous and a blank password I then cd to the directory at the ftp site where the iso is:

ftp> cd distribucions/suse/suse/i386/9.2/iso
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/distribucions/suse/suse/i386/9.2/iso"
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 177 Jan 05 17:14 MD5SUMS
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1213 Jan 05 14:28 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 3363543040 Oct 22 13:33 SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 67336192 Nov 29 12:02 SUSE-Linux-9.2-mini-installation.iso
226 Directory send OK.

And finally issue the reget command:

ftp> reget SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
local: SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso remote: SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
350 Restart position accepted (2147483647).
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso (3363543040 bytes).

And so life goes on...

Thanks

Hi,

You have just been hit by the 32bit linux max filesize of 2gb.
There is an RLIMIT_FSIZE parameter somewhere, but I cannot access the sourcecode right now, so I don't know where exactly, will post back when I find it...
or maybe someone else out there knows?

Robert