DVD iso

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sun May 16 10:54:53 UTC 2004


On Sun, 16 May 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May 16, 2004, Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu> wrote:
> 
> >> 80 megs is the rescuecd.  The DVD is 4+ GiB, unless some server or
> >> client program is truncating its size to 32 bits.
> >> 
> 
> > http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.92/i386/iso/FC2-test3-i386-DVD.iso
> > being one such image.
> 
> Err...  I don't think so.  If I open the directory in my browser, it
> says:
> 
>  FC2-test3-i386-DVD.iso      Apr 21  2004        4G 
> 
> So there's something wrong with the http client you're using for the
> download.

as i (vaguely) recall from this discussion before, it's a problem with
some of the clients that don't understand >32-bit sizes.  a number of
people complained about this weirdly small size before.

rday





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