Dear GNU,
I was trying to download SuSE version 9.2 from the local mirror site
thinking that I could get the entire package as a single DVD image (> 2 GB).
So I did the wget command with the appropriate FTP arguments, and run it in
the background.
The first clue that this was going to have some problems was when I
inspected the wget-log file and found this:
==> RETR SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso ... done.
Length: -931,424,256 [-1,275,058,088 to go]
[ skipping 335550K ]
335550K ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,. .......... ..........-36% 25.24
KB/s
The length and to go numbers as well as the -36% was interesting to me,
but I figured that it was just a print format problem. But what I found was
that when the file reached approximately 2 GB in size, wget just quit. No
error message in the log, just quit. Trying to resume wget on that file
appears to try and skip forward the amount downloaded, but then also just
quit.
Perhaps there is an issue with the ftp server and large files, or, more
likely, that wget can't handle large files. Definitely worth some
investigation I think.
Let me know if I need to provide more information or testing for you.
Thanks,
Erik.
