John Summerfield 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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
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>>
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