Thanks, John I am not sure about my file system, but I feel that is the problem, I will check it soon. You are so great!
Regards! Carl On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM, John Summerfield < [email protected]> wrote: > carl wrote: > >> Hi, Troy >> Thanks for your reply. I didn't use http cause it take long time and once >> disconnected the downloading file will be lost. I will try using other >> downloading soft like bt as Igor suggested. >> carl >> > > Are you downloading with Windows using a FAT filesystem? > > Does it support files over 4 Gbytes? > > If _that_ is your problem, either change your computer or use the CD images > or add a USB drive and format it NTFS, then download directly to that. an 8 > Gbyte flash drive would be the minimum. > > > > >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> carl wrote: >>> >>>> Hi,all! >>>> >>>> I am new to linux, but I want to try it now. Cause I am studying in a >>>> adademic institute, so I find S. L. . Hope to learn from you in the >>>> >>> future $B!* (B >>> >>>> My question is, when I download S.L. 5.2 from >>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/iso/ , I use >>>> flashget, the project finished 99% but always fail at the last 1%, the >>>> error message said there is error when writing to files. I tried >>>> download to another partition but fail again. Does anybody knows why? >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Carl >>>> >>> Hi Carl, >>> I've never used flashget, so I am not positive about my answer, but some >>> people have had their download problems fixed simply by using http >>> instead of ftp. So the first thing I would try would be to download from >>> >>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/iso/ >>> >>> Troy >>> -- >>> __________________________________________________ >>> Troy Dawson [email protected] (630)840-6468 >>> Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group >>> __________________________________________________ >>> >>> >> > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [email protected] [email protected] > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) >
