Re: Downloading DVD .ISO's

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Justin Grindal wrote:

> Quick question - 
>
> I've been trying to download the DVD .ISO's from 
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-dvd/
>
> and, instead of getting the 4.0 and 3.4 GB ISO's, mine only wind up
> being an even 2GB.  Obviously, when they're done, the md5sum's don't
> line up, and the images don't work.  I tried downloading them using my
> WinXP box (first try was on FC3 box) and I only read them as 387 meg
> downloads.  Any advice on how I can get the whole ISO?
>
>  
This is a limitation of 32bit download apps.

Use a 64-bit downloader (e.g. wget on amd64, Firefox on amd64, even MSIE 
on XP 64bit), or use the .torrent file. Or you may have some luck with 
an ftp client. And I think curl can handle it, if you can get it to behave.

--Jo Shields