Dificulty downloading ISO's

lectraplayer · 06-30-2004, 09:04 PM

I don't know why, but I am having trouble downloading ISO's, which leaves many of my Linux flavors of interest out. I have a dial-up connection so it takes forever to download them, but my problem is that when I go to, say, download a 200MB ISO of Peanut Linux, I get 20MB in and my browser indicates the download (all browsers and download services I've tried) is complete. This happens with any ISO, be it Damn Small Linux or full-blown RedHat. What could be the deal? Other download types seem unaffected.

Mega Man X · 06-30-2004, 09:13 PM

Are you trying to use IE for downloading? This sort of problem is very common with IE and ftp's.

If you are using Linux, I'd recommend you using an ftp client as gftp or kbear, while if you are downloading stuff from Windows, use WS_ftp LE. Although, downloading with Mozilla should be safe too. At least, safer then with IE

Good luck!

twilli227 · 06-30-2004, 09:18 PM

lectraplayer, I am not sure about your problem, but I just sent you an e-mail

lectraplayer · 07-02-2004, 12:19 PM

I use Mozilla, but I have duplicated the problem in IE as well. This is really frustrating for me.

twilli227: I appreciate your offer, though I would like to get this thing fixed. If it was saying error, I may respond diferently, but it is saying finished and complete, but it isn't complete.

Mara · 07-03-2004, 07:32 AM

I also had such problems with one Firefox build. The best solution, IMHO is to download using wget. Never had such a problem with it.

lectraplayer · 07-03-2004, 10:06 PM

It even seems to happen with FTP Commander. I guess it may be an ISP thing, but I saw nothing about it in the license.