On Saturday 13 August 2005 07:57 pm, Linda Walsh wrote: > I'm trying to download the suse92-dvd.iso from mirrors.kernel.org that is > over 4G long. I am encountering signs of a problem -- I've interrupted > and continued a few times with different options but am still getting > a bogus size: > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for SUSE-9.3-Eval-DVD.iso > (4488353792 by > tes). > Length: 193,386,496 > ...... > In round numbers that looks to be about 4G on the low side... > My latest line of output looks like: > 1062912K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........564% > 100.00 KB/s > > So what's going to happen on the download? Is it going to just crash > when the file offset exceeds 2G or 4G? > > Is this fixable or is this a Gnu-library bug that has to be fixed first?
you might be using an old version of wget. downloads of files larger than 2GB are supported only by wget 1.10 and later. please, upgrade your wget installation to 1.10 and try again. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute for Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
