On 2014-06-13 07:02 (GMT-0700) Tony Alfrey composed:
it took DAYS to download the file and it was broken. My connection speed is fine (in the neighborhood of 10 Mb/s) but the download process was a complete failure.
Days using what method, a web browser? Try a full-fledged downloader instead. They have ways to deal with problems like broken connections and corruptions: Aria2, Curl, Wget, Torrent, maybe others. I've been using Wget ever since discovering what a downloader is.
That would be fine, but I just don't have a year to wait for a download.
Skip the web page and go straight to a mirror list. In the USA, go straight to http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/ and click your choice of version, then iso, then copy the URL of the tiny validation file (asc or md5 or sha1 or torrent), feed that to your downloader on a cmdline such as Konsole, when up arrow, remove the validation suffix, hit enter and wait only a reasonable time, which on a 10Mbit connection should take under 40 minutes. Going to http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ instead of kernel.org may or may not be better than kernel.org in USA. Only trying both will tell if there's any significant difference.
I can buy a computer on-line and have it delivered to my door in two days. Why can't SuSE manage to offer the same and for 12.X which the website says is still supported?
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