FC3 DVD download problems

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:02 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:44:19 -0500, Kunal Shah <kunalv.shah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there any way to make wget overcome
> the 2 Gig limit, i like downloading with the command line, i was
> thinking of rsync but there are not many rsync mirrors around and i
> don't know it's limitations.

You could always use curl instead:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg05028.html

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>