In <200911110509.21901.pandarsson@gmail.com>, Constantinos Galilei wrote:
On Wednesday November 11 2009 1:39:23 am Leen de Braal wrote:
when I try to download openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso, it always 251M in size , no matter which mirror site I tried. but it is said to be 4.2G. what is wrong?
Maybe because you are trying to download with a browser that is not able to do more than 4GB.
What browser would that be?
Any browser that uses a 32-bit value for a file size or offset, even as part of an intermediate step.
I've downloaded DVD images with Firefox, Konqueror and (yes) Lynx. I'm not sure what would cause a browser to be unable to download beyond a certain size except for disk space unless the coders specifically put in that limitation, and I'm baffled as to why they'd do that.
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