FC3 DVD download problems

Kunal Shah kunalv.shah at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 02:44:19 UTC 2005


You can download four cd iso files and use a script to make DVD iso out
of it.

I did it and it worked perfactly fine. then i burned dvd out of it.

I am looking for that link. once i will get it i will post it.

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:05 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> > Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> 
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have 
> >> tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> >> and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> >> tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> >> md5 it never matches the published one.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> >> can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> >>
> 
> > Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect 
> > earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> > 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> > that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?
> 
> Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
> for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
> partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
> restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
> managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
> just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
> ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
> to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
> solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
> dream ;)
> 
> Regards,
> Maxim.
> 




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