FC3 DVD download problems

[Srinivasan S]

Hi

Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an md5 it never matches the published one.

Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I can use ?? Any help is appreciated

Regards
Srini

[Rob Kirkbride]

Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> Hi
>
> Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have 
> tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine 
> and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also 
> tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an 
> md5 it never matches the published one.
>
> Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I 
> can use ?? Any help is appreciated

Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect 
earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than 
2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file 
that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?

BTW : Please don't post anti-social signatures like yours to this newsgroup.

Re[2]: FC3 DVD download problems

[Maxim Eremeev]

> Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> > Hi
> >
> > Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have 
> > tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> > and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> > tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> > md5 it never matches the published one.
> >
> > Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> > can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect 
> earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?

Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
dream ;)

Regards,
Maxim.

Re[2]: FC3 DVD download problems

[Kunal Shah]

You can download four cd iso files and use a script to make DVD iso out
of it.

I did it and it worked perfactly fine. then i burned dvd out of it.

I am looking for that link. once i will get it i will post it.

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:05 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> > Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have 
> > > tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> > > and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> > > tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> > > md5 it never matches the published one.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> > > can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> > Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect 
> > earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> > 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> > that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?
>
> Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
> for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
> partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
> restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
> managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
> just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
> ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
> to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
> solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
> dream ;)
>
> Regards,
> Maxim.

Re[2]: FC3 DVD download problems

[Mark Panen]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:44:19 -0500, Kunal Shah  wrote:
> You can download four cd iso files and use a script to make DVD iso out
> of it.
>
> I did it and it worked perfactly fine. then i burned dvd out of it.
>
> I am looking for that link. once i will get it i will post it.
>
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:05 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> > > Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have
> > > > tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> > > > and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> > > > tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> > > > md5 it never matches the published one.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> > > > can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> > > Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect
> > > earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> > > 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> > > that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?
> >
> > Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
> > for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
> > partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
> > restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
> > managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
> > just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
> > ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
> > to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
> > solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
> > dream ;)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maxim.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there any way to make wget overcome
the 2 Gig limit, i like downloading with the command line, i was
thinking of rsync but there are not many rsync mirrors around and i
don't know it's limitations.

Re[2]: FC3 DVD download problems

[Kunal Shah]

If you see the notes on fedora site about downloading dvd image you will get

FC3-x86_64-DVD.iso (md5sum: 2786a751df919f340d967a4833b63b16)
Note: If you are using HTTP or FTP to download, some download clients
cannot handle the DVD image because it is larger than 4 gigabytes.
Please refer to the documentation of your download client for details.

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 06:02:14 +0200, Mark Panen  wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:44:19 -0500, Kunal Shah  wrote:
> > You can download four cd iso files and use a script to make DVD iso out
> > of it.
> >
> > I did it and it worked perfactly fine. then i burned dvd out of it.
> >
> > I am looking for that link. once i will get it i will post it.
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:05 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> > > > Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have
> > > > > tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> > > > > and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> > > > > tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> > > > > md5 it never matches the published one.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> > > > > can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> > > > Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect
> > > > earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> > > > 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> > > > that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?
> > >
> > > Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
> > > for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
> > > partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
> > > restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
> > > managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
> > > just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
> > > ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
> > > to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
> > > solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
> > > dream ;)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Maxim.
>
> Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there any way to make wget overcome
> the 2 Gig limit, i like downloading with the command line, i was
> thinking of rsync but there are not many rsync mirrors around and i
> don't know it's limitations.
>
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Re[2]: FC3 DVD download problems

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:02 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:44:19 -0500, Kunal Shah  wrote:
> > You can download four cd iso files and use a script to make DVD iso out
> > of it.
> >
> > I did it and it worked perfactly fine. then i burned dvd out of it.
> >
> > I am looking for that link. once i will get it i will post it.
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:05 +0300, Maxim Eremeev wrote:
> > > > Srinivasan S wrote on 21/02/2005 09:18:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I have
> > > > > tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows machine
> > > > > and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I have also
> > > > > tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but when I do an
> > > > > md5 it never matches the published one.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download tools I
> > > > > can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> > > > Are you sure the file size after download is correct? I suspect
> > > > earlier/some/many versions of Windows can't cope with a file bigger than
> > > > 2GB. I suspect that any Windows 9x/NT versions wouldn't cope with a file
> > > > that size, or if you store it on a FAT partition?
> > >
> > > Seems like it's a good style in Open Source Community to blame Windows
> > > for everything. :) Unfortunately, it is not BG. In fact FAT32
> > > partitions cannot deal with files larger than 4GB and there is no such
> > > restrictions if you are lucky to use NTFS. However, a lot of download
> > > managers do have problems with large files, though the restriction is
> > > just the same 4GB (was a headache with FC2). So theoretically FC3 DVD
> > > ISO file should be OK. Well it is just a pure theory - I never managed
> > > to download it successfully - MD5 never matched. So I suggest the same
> > > solution that helped me - use Bittorrent - that one worked like a
> > > dream ;)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Maxim.
>
> Sorry to hijack the thread, but is there any way to make wget overcome
> the 2 Gig limit, i like downloading with the command line, i was
> thinking of rsync but there are not many rsync mirrors around and i
> don't know it's limitations.

You could always use curl instead:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg05028.html

Paul.

[Maxim Eremeev]

> Hi
> Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I
> have tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows
> machine and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I
> have also tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but
> when I do an md5 it never matches the published one.
> Any ideas on how I can successfully download ?  Other download
> tools I can use ?? Any help is appreciated
> Regards 
> Srini

Bittorrent should work OK.

[Simon]

> > Hi
> > Past few days I have been trying to download the FC3 DVD .. I
> > have tried various mirrors .. Machine connected to net is a windows
> > machine and I have tried Leechget, Freshdownload and Getright.  I
> > have also tried various mirrors .. All downloads are successful but
> > when I do an md5 it never matches the published one.

I was having similar problems. I eventually got it to work by using 
filezilla. I found it doesnt work by default though. If I let it 
download with the default setting of retrying on a failed download, it 
just kept on downloading data. If you set it to not retry on download 
failure, it should fail with an error when the file downloaded is the 
correct size. It should leave a working file on your disk afterwards, 
even though filezilla itself thinks the download has failed.