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 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! > > 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 > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group > __________________________________________________ >