Dear openSUSE lovers… I want to believe
RE: Mirrors FAIL for openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso >>> HELP!
So I’m trying really, really hard to download a version of openSUSE to revive an original Asus eeePC 4G Surf booting up the OS from an external SD card. Was pointed to the < openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso > which I want to load on the SD card as a bootable iso OS.
My problem is BOTH mirrors I tried FAILED badly at the last moment… Almost the entire 4+GB iso image came down OK except the last MB or so. In other words 99% downloaded from these TWO mirrors, one in ZA and the other in EU then nothing…
WTF is going on? South Africa, where I live, has one of the most expensive data rates per MB anywhere! I’ve downloaded almost 10GB TWICE but still have no iso I can work with. That sucks.
PLEASE for the love of G_d can someone point me to a reliable source that won’t take an eternity to download. The mirrors I used which left me dangling and feeling like a COMPLETE ID10T are:
http://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso
http://opensuse-mirror-gce-eu.opensu.se/distribution/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso
I need to use the eeePC specifically to run flash-enabled .exe files of the Prezi format (prezi.com) and have been led to believe that openSUSE-13.1 + WINE will enable this.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Thanks
Hi
Your downloading to a FAT formatted device I would guess… if so, change to something with ntfs or ext3/4.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 02:16:02 +0000, mudthang wrote:
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Go to http://software.opensuse.org and download from there - you can use
the torrent to check the existing file, but as malcolmlewis noted, if you
download to a FAT device, it will fail, because the file is larger than
FAT’s largest allowed filesize.
If all else fails, download from the official source rather than a
mirror. 
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Thanks malcolm and Henders
Will try download direct to an SD partitioned for ext.
If/hopefully *when *it works will let you know…
Keep well
mud
On 2014-03-22 09:46, mudthang wrote:
>
> Thanks malcolm and Henders
> Will try download direct to an SD partitioned for ext.
> If/hopefully -when -it works will let you know…
> Keep well
You are using WIndows? Then use media formatted as NTFS, not FAT. I
would not recommend EXT either, because it is not natively supported by
Windows.
Then, that said, what you downloaded must be somewhere, even incomplete.
There are methods to reuse a partial download, but I will not explain
without knowing what you have available, Windows or Linux.
There is some help about this in the openSUSE download page.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:43:08 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2014-03-22 09:46, mudthang wrote:
>>
>> Thanks malcolm and Henders
>> Will try download direct to an SD partitioned for ext.
>> If/hopefully -when -it works will let you know… Keep well
>
> You are using WIndows? Then use media formatted as NTFS, not FAT. I
> would not recommend EXT either, because it is not natively supported by
> Windows.
>
> Then, that said, what you downloaded must be somewhere, even incomplete.
> There are methods to reuse a partial download, but I will not explain
> without knowing what you have available, Windows or Linux.
>
> There is some help about this in the openSUSE download page.
Assuming he’s using Windows, I’m going to guess he means exfat, which is
a new FAT format for flash drives in Windows. There’s no native support
for it in Linux, but if he’s going to burn to a disc in Windows, that
won’t matter.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
On 2014-03-22 20:38, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:43:08 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Assuming he’s using Windows, I’m going to guess he means exfat, which is
> a new FAT format for flash drives in Windows. There’s no native support
> for it in Linux, but if he’s going to burn to a disc in Windows, that
> won’t matter.
Ah, yes, absolutely. I forgot about that one.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
