Irony, frustration and despair

[dspolleke]

can you imagine how long it has been i downloaden >4Gb files under windows..
i can't remember.. heck i CAN.. it was the image for suse 9.3 i guess.. but it was an NTFS partition..

sorry my bad

[KJ44]

If downloading the DVD ISO isn't an option for you due to Windows voodoo, why not download the 70 Mbyte or so for the NET install?

I've installed twice that way, and it takes about two hours to install ~2.4 Gbytes as opposed to 30 minutes from the DVD. Sometimes you have to retry (just click OK when the dialog pops up) but it's relatively painless, and much easier to do than in the past.

PS under openSUSE 10.3, KTorrent downloaded the 11.0 DVD no problems. I continue to seed it, but not all the time.

69_rs_ss wrote:
> AngstRidden wrote:
>> I have a 120gb "D:/" drive... newly formatted as FAT. It has nothing
>> on it but a smile. Having played with Ubuntu (but not got to where I
>> wanted to be) I chose SUSE instead. So I know:
>>
>> a) I can download - http and ftp
>> b) I can boot from both HDDs with Linux and/or Windows
>> c) Vuze has never let me down
>> d) Wise has never let me down
>>
>> I'm grateful for the alternative server idea but, before I start
>> downloading again, should I reformat as ntfs?
>>
>>
> I believe that is your problem. Fat32 has a 4GB size limit and the DVD
> is over that. You will need to upgrade/reformat to ntfs and you
> shouldn't have an issue.

I believe there is an exception to this, as IIRC TrueImage will create
..tib files larger than 4GB on a FAT32 partition - though I will have to
try and find one to confirm that. It could, of course, be that the TI CD
boots Linux :-) or that MS Windows is reporting a size larger than 4GB
when it is actually less (10**9 not 2**30 per GB).

--
PeeGee

Asus M2V-MX SE, AMD 64X2 3800+, openSuSE 10.3 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
Asus M2NPV-VM, AMD LE1640, openSuSE 11.0 x86-64/XP Home dual boot

[DenverD]

> However, in order to get Linux - SUSE included - I need Bill Gates.

how so? i didn't! (i got my DVD in the mail, with a nice Linux mag)..

hang in there....just suffer through the evils of M$ a little longer and
then you can free, forever!

and the NEXT time you download some FREE (and superior) openSuSE Linux
you won't be needing Mr. Bill either!!

congratulations,

DenverD

[AngstRidden]

Thanks to everyone. Here's the latest in the saga.

Got the ISO from a torrent and it wrote nicely to a USB NFTS. I then extracted to my waiting D:/ drive which is FAT32. I read that if you want to read between two drives, one of which has Windows stuff on it, FAT32 is the option.

Ran the .exe under windows from the d:/ drive and rebooted. Got the O/S options and went into SUSE installation. It's working so far although it took about 20 minutes for the Time Zone screen to load. But that's another thread.

Thanks again.