Re: FW: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/i386/iso-dvd/ - not all ISO images are available for download

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:49:06PM +0100, Alexander, Adam wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am trying to download the DVD ISO images for the i386 version of
>Debian Lenny but I am having no luck via the Debian site as the link
>shows the images as available but only DVD-5 and the Update DVD actually
>download (DVD-1 to DVD-4 come up with a page error).
>
>I also tried via the Great Britain VirginMedia
>(ftp://debian.virginmedia.com/mirrors/debian-cd/5.0.2/i386/iso-dvd/) and
>MirrorService
>(ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.2/i3
>86/iso-dvd/) mirrors but DVD-1 to DVD-4 all download with a file size of
>under 400Mb each (DVD-5 downloads as 2.05Gb and the Update DVD downloads
>as 1.2Gb).  Please can you advise as I cannot get DVD-1 to DVD-4.

Hi Adam,

Unless I'm very much mistaken, looks like you've been bitten by:

  http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#small-dvd

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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