Re: Unable to burn ISO image
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Raymond Wood wrote:
> I discovered the solution to my problem pretty much by accident. The problem
> appears to have been caused by trying to use Netscape to download the ISO image
> from Mike's site. All I had to do was use a regular FTP client instead
> - this fixed the image corruption problem, and I was able to burn the CD just
> fine :)
>
> I'd be interested to know if this is common knowledge or not (i.e. use an
> FTP client, not a web browser to download these ISO images). If it is, I
> didn't find any references to it in the tons of documentation I looked at
> when trying to solve my problem :)
This is quite strange, but then Netscape is known to do strange things. I
always use `wget' to fetch large things (Win version in the Pseudo-Image Kit).
And the problem with FTP clients is that some of them default to Ascii mode,
which is just as bad ;-)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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