Re: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ does not contain valid ISO-images

[Mattias Wadenstein <maswan@acc.umu.se>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, George Danchev wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 June 2005 20:50, Klaus Ruebsam wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Thanks for releasing the newest version of Debian 3.1
> >
> > Unfortunately the ISO-images contained in
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ do not have
> > the correct size (one is 382.6 MB, the other one just 130.7 MB instead
> > of the listed filesizes of 4.4 and 4.1 GIG!). I?m have tried both with
> > Firefox and with IE, both with same readings. Is there something that I
> > did wrong? I also tried to download via BitTorrent, but could not
> > receive a single Byte.
>
> You should never try to download such big file with any browser ;-)
> Also you need a download client supporting big files (over 2G) like the 
> latest version of wget for example.

Note that the latest version of wget in debian does not support large 
files. I recommend lftp (with the lftpget command line util) for http and 
ftp downloads.

I have verified the downloads from cdimage.d.o when I put the files up, 
the problem is on your side.

/Mattias Wadenstein