I want to download Suse 11. I select
32 Bit PC
DVD
Standard (ftp or Http)
and see two links under “Start Download Here”:
"Installation DVD (4.3 GB)
“Extra Languages (612 MB) (optional)”
If I download the Installation DVD I only get around 293 MB. Download manager says from the start it is 293 MB. I also tried FTP and tried from different PCs (Vista and XP). Every time I get only 293 MB!
I tried to install Suse 11 on a Virtual PC using the iso with 293 MB but it fails to install. It shows the splash screen and then the menu. I select “Installation” and it loads the kernel. Then it sits there with a blank screen.
So at this stage, I see this as a waste of bandwidth! Can anyone help me please?
Probably because of the “wonderful” M$ software that can’t handle download files > 4GiB. Get a decent download program instead of using IE or whatever. Filezilla is one that can do ftp and is multiplatform. That are lots of others, I’m sure others will have suggestions. Filezilla is just off the top of my head.
Have you tried using a torrent instead? The download is in the GB size
range so there is apparently something up with your downloading
application (download manager or web browser or whatever).
Good luck.
PeterNZ wrote:
| Hi forum,
|
| I want to download Suse 11. I select
| 32 Bit PC
| DVD
| Standard (ftp or Http)
| and see two links under “Start Download Here”:
| "Installation DVD (4.3 GB)
| “Extra Languages (612 MB) (optional)”
|
| If I download the Installation DVD I only get around 293 MB. Download
| manager says from the start it is 293 MB. I also tried FTP and tried
| from different PCs (Vista and XP). Every time I get only 293 MB!
|
| I tried to install Suse 11 on a Virtual PC using the iso with 293 MB
| but it fails to install. It shows the splash screen and then the menu.
| I select “Installation” and it loads the kernel. Then it sits there
| with a blank screen.
|
| So at this stage, I see this as a waste of bandwidth! Can anyone help
| me please?
|
| Cheers
|
| Peter
|
|
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Thanks for your reply! But the “wonderful” M$ software is able and was able in the past to download GBytes of software from all sort of different sources and locations! For exmple Vsiual Studio 2008 which was over 6 Gbyte! So why would it suddenly not download the “wonderful” $u$e Linux?
yeah… I use the fireftp plugin for Firefox and it’s great.
Good luck.
ken yap wrote:
| Probably because of the “wonderful” M$ software that can’t handle
| download files > 4GiB. Get a decent download program instead of using
| IE or whatever. Filezilla is one that can do ftp and is multiplatform.
| That are lots of others, I’m sure others will have suggestions.
| Filezilla is just off the top of my head.
|
|
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It means your download app’s counter is wrapping around at 32-bits. Probably it never expected people to use it to download more than 4GiB.
Sure you may have downloaded more than 4GiB in one session, but in one file?
Doesn’t it stand to reason that if few other people have not reported problems with fetching the 11.0 ISOs that it’s more likely to be a problem you end?
I find your logic interesting! Working in IT for over 15
years now I always try to avoid jumping to conclusions. But yes, it is a common practice with many to always expect the fault on the other side. Especially if the “other side” has a bad reputation. I have or had my feet in both camps. One thing I never did was to see things black and white! This is one thing which drove me away from the Linux community. The separation into good and bad. I was really amazed to see the dreaded “M$” in basically the first reply I got from you. Not much has changed, eh? Strangely enough I met more Linux people who hated Microsoft than Microsoft people who talked bad about Linux! Funny, eh?
If you would have read my posts more thoroughly you would have seen that I told you that I downloaded ISO files (one file!!!) on many occasions. One was over 6 GByte. But with your Linux tainted glasses you might have overlooked this! As part of my daily work I often download DVD ISOs and as you might be able to imagine, they are most of the time over 4 GB. So why is it, that you draw the conclusion that the problem is on my side?
And ignoring these problems or even assuming that there isn’t a problem because I am the only one who raised this issue is a bit risky, too! You know what assume stands for? Making an Ass out of U and ME!
Who knows? But all your symptoms are consistent with your download software being unable to handle > 4GiB files. Other posters who had similar problems with ISO images found that their problem went away when they used other download apps.
IE6 has problems with files > 2GiB. IE7 has problems with files > 4GiB. These are well known problems. So on the balance of probabilities, especially as 293MiB is exactly the amount the ISO size is over the 4GiB mark, I put out my hypothesis. I don’t get every one that I venture right, but I have high confidence in this one.
It’s getting silly now. But just for you I repeat it again: I did not use Internet explorer! I used Firefox! And before you say again it must be my file system: The firefox download plug in (DownThemAll recommended by OpenSuse.org web page!!!) says immediately (before it hits the file system) that this download is 293 MB!!!
I know you didn’t use IE, but it could also be a problem with DownThemAll, or at least the implementation of DownThemAll on Win32. On the balance of probabilities, it’s more likely to be a problem with the download app rather than the website, since lots of users would have noticed if the Apache server was broken in someway w.r.t. large files.
I know you were influenced by your experience of being able to download large files before. It could be something as devious as a bizarre interaction between DownThemAll and the way that download.opensuse.org redirects to mirror archives closer to the requester. Who knows? These sorts of corner situations trip up programmers.
> So at this stage, I see this as a waste of bandwidth! Can anyone help
> me please?
sorry, i can’t…BUT, maybe some here could actually LOOK at the download
available RIGHT NOW…because, i followed the trail that our way down
under friend PeterNZ did:
The mirror you’re using might have trouble serving over 4GB files due to issues with the FTP/HTTP server (it mis-reports the file size).
Please switch to another server and see if this fixes the issue.
Alternatively acquire an FTP program such as FileZilla for Win32 ( FileZilla - The free FTP solution ) and try downloading it from a mirror in FTP - this allows you to continue transfers should they be interrupted (FTP resume support).
Just started the download to help work this out. I’m currently at 338
MB and counting. Download w/SLED 10 SP2 in Firefox (Download Status
Toolbar in use). If you are already using a torrent, great since those
don’t have problems with sizes unless the resulting file is bigger than
the OS/filesystem can handle, but otherwise, considering your stopping
point, there is something else wrong. Be it server or client, it’s
something you’ve hit and apparently can’t get past. Torrents are great
for just this reason. Maybe you’re hitting one bad, corrupt mirror over
and over somehow, but I’d be surprised to see that happen either.
Good luck.
Chrysantine wrote:
| The mirror you’re using might have trouble serving over 4GB files due to
| issues with the FTP/HTTP server (it mis-reports the file size).
|
| Please switch to another server and see if this fixes the issue.
|
| Alternatively acquire an FTP program such as FileZilla for Win32 (
| ‘FileZilla - The free FTP solution’ (http://filezilla-project.org/) )
| and try downloading it from a mirror in FTP - this allows you to
| continue transfers should they be interrupted (FTP resume support).
|
| You can find a list of mirrors for your area from:
| ‘Mirrors Released Version - openSUSE’
| (http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version)
|
|
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