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Re: Download files short



Hi Kevin,

[please send any follow-up replies only to the debian-cd list]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:50:30PM -0400, Kevin Halberg wrote:
> I have been trying for days to get sarge and lenny from the http
> download site.
[...]
> I have tried with both IE and Google Chrome and in both cases I get
> files which are around 370-380MB.  It indicates on the download that
> it is a 4.4GB image, but the download finishes and the files are
> short.

For reference, see http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#small-dvd

You are probably attempting a download on to a FAT32 filesystem, which
also does not support files larger than 4 gigabytes.

Geoff


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