Gutsy DVD download fails

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Nov 3 19:13:49 UTC 2007


NoOp wrote:
> I've tried for 2 days now to download the Gutsy DVD (from my 7.10
> system): http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/gutsy-dvd-i386.iso
> and it fails at 4.2G with "File size limit exceeded (core dumped)".
>
> Tried with both standard browser download and wget, and I get the same.
>
> Now here's the question: I only had enough spare room to do the
> download on the second hard drive which is a FAT32 formated Windows
> XPPro drive that I use for dual booting to troubleshoot customer
> problems. Does FAT32 have a file size limitation?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table the file 
size limit is 4GiB-1.


Nils




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