Trouble downloading 20050312 Installtion DVD

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:51:02PM -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:

> I first downloaded it via Firefox and it stopped downloading once it
> hit 2GB (the iso is 2.8GB).
> [...]
> --- snip ---
> ~$ wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/weekly-dvd/20050312/hoary-install-i386.iso
> --15:40:34--  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/weekly-dvd/20050312/hoary-install-i386.iso
>            => `hoary-install-i386.iso'
> Resolving cdimage.ubuntu.com... 82.211.81.155
> Connecting to cdimage.ubuntu.com[82.211.81.155]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: -1,341,491,200 [application/octet-stream]
> 
>     [ <=>                                 ] 0             --.--K/s
> 
> 15:40:34 (0.00 B/s) - `hoary-install-i386.iso' saved [0/-1341491200])
> --- snip ---
> 
> 
> Can anyone download the iso OK, I can't :(. 2GB file limit?

I just uploaded a fixed wget to Hoary, which can download large files
properly.

We'll see what can be done about Firefox, but I suspect it won't be as easy.

Tools which are known to handle large files properly include bittorrent
(preferred), wget and rsync.

-- 
 - mdz