Having finally lost it with Bill Gates, I’ve reconciled myself to Linux and chosen SUSE. Actually, I have no problem with that at all.
However, in order to get Linux - SUSE included - I need Bill Gates. Anyone else see the irony in that? It gets worse. The SUSE torrent download has crashed 3 times and the FTP twice so far. Both in the 90%s. Three days and most of my hair have disappeared.
My question is simple. If not Wise5 or Azureus Vuze, is there a viable alternative to get the DVD ISO downloaded? A reliable mirror perhaps?
And B4 you all start with geeky humour, there’s sanity at stake here so be gentle.
I didn’t have problems with neither the torrent nor FTP. Is your internet connection acting up?
You could try http, though it will probably also fail when your connection is flakey.
That’s really strange. Torrents are meant to lose their connection and
reconnect. I used Azureus/Vuze to pull down the x86_64 DVD ISO a week
or two ago and it was great (laptop so it was gaining/losing connection
the entire time as I moved around). I’m assuming you’re familiar with
torrents enough to know that is okay but, if not, it’s okay. You can
also, I believe, use a torrent to fix/complete a download from somewhere
else if needed though it takes a little twiddling.
How do you need microsoft to download Linux? You could buy the DVD, or
find a Linux enthusiast willing to burn you a copy. You can also buy
computers w/Linux pre-installed. If you’re in the area of the Novell
campus let me know and I’ll burn you one.
Good luck.
AngstRidden wrote:
| Having finally lost it with Bill Gates, I’ve reconciled myself to Linux
| and chosen SUSE. Actually, I have no problem with that at all.
|
| However, in order to get Linux - SUSE included - I need Bill Gates.
| Anyone else see the irony in that? It gets worse. The SUSE torrent
| download has crashed 3 times and the FTP twice so far. Both in the
| 90%s. Three days and most of my hair have disappeared.
|
| My question is simple. If not Wise5 or Azureus Vuze, is there a viable
| alternative to get the DVD ISO downloaded? A reliable mirror perhaps?
|
| And B4 you all start with geeky humour, there’s sanity at stake here so
| be gentle.
|
|
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AngstRidden wrote:
> Having finally lost it with Bill Gates, I’ve reconciled myself to Linux
> and chosen SUSE. Actually, I have no problem with that at all.
>
> However, in order to get Linux - SUSE included - I need Bill Gates.
> Anyone else see the irony in that? It gets worse. The SUSE torrent
> download has crashed 3 times and the FTP twice so far. Both in the
> 90%s. Three days and most of my hair have disappeared.
>
> My question is simple. If not Wise5 or Azureus Vuze, is there a viable
> alternative to get the DVD ISO downloaded? A reliable mirror perhaps?
>
> And B4 you all start with geeky humour, there’s sanity at stake here so
> be gentle.
>
>
Are you downloading to an NTFS partition or FAT32? Also, how are you
downloading through ftp, browser? If so, IE has issues with files over a
certain size.
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?
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.
dspolleke wrote:
> NTFS? why bother…
>
> just get it, burn it, use it…
>
>
Because you can’t get it when Fat32 has a file size of 4GB’s. Hence the
need to go ntfs to fully download the file.
Your downloads are going to fail. FAT32 does not support a file size >4GB, and the .iso is larger than that. So if you are going to download from within Windows, regardless of method, your only choice is NTFS.
Hang in. Everyone new to Linux gets angst (and many of us old farts still do, too). But it is definitely worth it . . .
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…
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 (109 not 230 per GB).
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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
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.
or that MS Windows is reporting a size larger than 4GB