response to download issue

[The Master of Disaster]

Thanks a bunch. I've started the torrent though it took me a little while to
find, the page to download it is, IMO, somewhat counterintuitive.
Instead of downloading by clicking on the version you want you have to click
on the torrent from a list of files at the bottom, which are written in very
small text (7 or 8 pixels). Oh well, I was still able to find it. Thanks for
your response, less than 10 mins =D
I look forward to the penguin! ^_^

On 1/12/07, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 00:47 -0700, The Master of Disaster wrote:
>
> >  The first time I burned it without hash checking the ISO. The
> > installer said there was "one errors" on the disk and it would hang at
> > login. I chocked it up to
> > a bad burn but later learned about the MD5 check. WinMD5sum says that
> > the hashes are different. So I downloaded it again. When it got to 99%
> > DownThemAll (the download manager I use which is a Firefox add-on)
> > informed me that my disk was full, which was true because I forgot to
> > delete the old ISO (this one would have overwritten the old, corrupt
> > one upon completion). I deleted some other things and made about 800MB
> > of free space available. To my frustration it caused the download to
> > start from the beginning. The 3rd download got to 100% and DownThemAll
> > hanged. After a few minutes of being unable to start, pause, or cancel
> > (all of the buttons were greyed out) I clicked "remove completed
> > tasks, which removed Ubuntus download, presumably because it was
> > complete. I performed another winMD5sum check and discovered that this
> > one too is messed.
>
> With a nickname / email address like that I think the above was still
> relatively mild. :)
>
> (Sorry, I suffer from a particularly bad case of Friday today)
>
> > Do the United States download servers not allow download managers?
>
> They allow it.  I've never been too impressed with DownloadTHemAll
> though but that could be a personal experience. I sometimes use
> FreeDownloadManager when on Windows.
>
> > I really don't want to keep re-downloading the image because it takes
> > 10+ hours and cannot be left unattended because the download times out
> > every once in a while.
>
> Where are you located?  Perhaps you could arrange to pick up a disc
> somewhere or get it burnt from someone with a fast connection or an
> Ubuntu install disk lying around.
>
> > Is there an officially supported torrent for
> > ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso? I at least know that I can download
> > large files with that, and probably faster than with FTP.
>
> Yes, go to Ubuntu.com and then download and you will see the torrent
> download mentioned as well.
>
> > P.S. When I reply to an email i can't change the subject in gmail, any
> > hints?
>
> There's a link called 'Edit Subject' after you reply.
>
> The Ubuntu community knows everything. :P  Honestly.
>
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
>
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