interesting problem - download of files > 2GB

[David Timms]

Rahul wrote:
> glenn wrote:
>> As mentioned earlier, I decided to suck Knoppix 5.0 to a DVD.  I found 
>> on a Knoppix mirror (ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/knoppix-dvd) the 
>> distro (4243030 KB in size).
>>
>> A couple of hours ago, I started a suck via the HTTP button.  But 
>> noticed that it showed the target size would be 2 GB :-(  I let it 
>> continue, BUT, when I had rcvd 2 GB, it terminated :-(
>>
>> So I went back to the size and used the ftp but and  that is were I 
>> got the above info from.  Again I started the download, only to find 
>> it was also going to be 2 GB :-(
>>
>> Now I am using FC4 as an environment.  Strange.  It is as though the 
>> file transfer system doesn't support above 2 GB.
>>
>> Any comment?
>>
> 
> 
> Release notes has this information. I have even specified the exact last 
> version of wget with this limitation in it for the last couple of releases
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-Installer
Rahul, I think we should add some specific downloaders that will not 
work with >2GByte file downloads will be truncated at the 2GB point:
I was going to put the following in the wiki, but I can't workout how to 
put a table inside an {i} info box:
===
  || {i} '''Downloading Large Files''' ||
  || If you intend to download the Fedora Core 
[[GetVal(DocsDict,BeatsVer)]] DVD ISO image, keep in mind that only some 
file downloading tools can accommodate files larger than 2GB in size. 
The following table indicates tools known to fail and succeed for large 
downloads.
   ||'''Large Downloads Fail'''||'''Large Downloads Succeed'''||
   ||{{{firefox}}}||{{{wget}}} 1.9.1-16 and above||
   ||{{{mozilla}}}||{{{curl}}}||
   ||{{{seamonkey}}}||{{{ncftpget}}}||
   ||internet explorer||'''Bit``Torrent'''||
'''Bit``Torrent''' is another method for downloading large files. For 
information about obtaining and using the torrent file, refer to 
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ . ||
===
DaveT.