carl wrote:
> 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!

My computer
Choose boot disk (probably c:), right-click, properties
See the "filesystem" line.

If it's NTFS, the file's size isn't your problem.

> 
> Regards!
> Carl
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM, John Summerfield <
> [log in to unmask]> 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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>> Cheers
>> John
>>
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