I forgot to mention that sl5.5 does not detect wireless network 
automatically with the installing version like windows, so is sl6 doing 
it?. I think sl should have at installation all tools (and updated) for 
most important applications and for most wireless models instead  of 
installing them by hand.

  rachid

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Rachid Ayad wrote:

> Thank you troy for your answers. Yes i will try this and also I just found 
> the 5.5 iso I saved a year agao and will use it as I lost my 5.5 dvds I burn 
> a year ago.
>
> Do you advise us to use sl6 instead or is too early to use it .... as we will 
> use our linux linux boxes for a research collaboration and we need all the 
> programs run well there.
>
> Rachid
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:
>
>> If that is the case, then the other two things I would do is
>> 
>> 1 - Do a md5sum check on your downloaded iso and make sure it matches.
>> 2 - Make sure my burning software knows that you are trying to burn a DVD 
>> and not a CD.
>> 
>> If you've checked both of those, then it is beyond my knowledge of what to 
>> do.
>> 
>> Troy
>> 
>> On 03/03/2011 10:49 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote:
>>>
>>>    I think it was fully downloaded as I see 4,277,... KB. Also I think 
>>> also
>>> is was ftp as before the link is mentioned ftp I will check in my office.
>>> will let you know.
>>>
>>>    thank you, rachid.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Rachid,
>>>> When downloading files in Internet Explorer, you cannot download anything
>>>> bigger than 4 Gig via http. (It might be 3.9 Gig, I don't know the exact
>>>> number)  So when you try to download our disk1 DVD, you are never getting 
>>>> the
>>>> whole image.
>>>> To fix this, download via ftp instead of http.
>>>> So go to
>>>> ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/
>>>> instead of
>>>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/
>>>> 
>>>> And you should get a full image for the 5.5 dvd's.
>>>> 
>>>> Troy
>>>> 
>>>> On 03/03/2011 10:03 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 
>>>>> is
>>>>> well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the
>>>>> system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted 
>>>>> at
>>>>> sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different
>>>>> windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it.
>>>>> I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems
>>>>> to burn disc1 iso image.
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>>     Thank you, Rachid.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> March 3, 2011
>>>>>> Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available.
>>>>>> We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us
>>>>>> feedback.  Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this
>>>>>> release
>>>>>> wouldn't be as good as it is.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> More information can be found at the distribution web site
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There are CD and DVD iso images available at
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/
>>>>>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- The Scientific Linux Development Team
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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