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slashmais, is there any way you could verify/double-check the link you used for download?
The larger size (~3.7GB) is close to the size of the source iso (for 14.2_x86!)
If you choose to try and download again, I think you may have better luck using a torrent.
Torrents are supposedly "bit-perfect" as they verify as they go. http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php
slashmais, is there any way you could verify/double-check the link you used for download?
The larger size (~3.7GB) is close to the size of the source iso (for 14.2_x86!)
If you choose to try and download again, I think you may have better luck using a torrent.
Torrents are supposedly "bit-perfect" as they verify as they go. http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php
..download again.. I've got a 3G-connection to the web, dowload rate is sloooow, this download took 2+ days!
(In the meantimer I'm installing virtualbox and will attempt to install this iso in it to see if it is usable
but I would appreciate resolution either way)
You can check its viability immediately with something like:
Code:
sudo mount -o loop /path/to/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso /mnt/tmp/
ls -l /mnt/tmp
Assuming that fails in your case (because the download is no good), my guess is that the server doesn't support continuation as requested by -c option of your wget command. In that case, any interruption results in a full download being added to whatever was downloaded before the interruption (my interpretation of -c|--continue option in man wget).
For whatever reason, I'm not able to download ISOs using the link on the Vector Linux site, but when I use a mirror site, the download completes successfully.
I emailed slackware(info@) yesterday, but no response (yet?) - do they care?
It's unlikely they're able to guess what went wrong with an arbitrary download somewhere in the world from one of many mirror sites.
BTW I started to download from the site you mentioned but gave up after 10% completed in about six hours. I have quite a good connection so I guess the server is not well connected. Maybe that's why it took you 2 days to download (rather than your 3G connection). I suggest you do a fresh download from a different site.
..download again.. I've got a 3G-connection to the web, dowload rate is sloooow, this download took 2+ days!
(In the meantimer I'm installing virtualbox and will attempt to install this iso in it to see if it is usable
but I would appreciate resolution either way)
I would try wget without the '-c' continue option initially. If you do break the download and then attempt the wget -c and the server does not support continuation then the server will just start over with a unique appending number to the filename. the 'man wget' states that the '-c' is not necessary initially since a check will be made.
You should check the download hash code to insure a valid copy of the downloaded ISO. The '.md5' is provided to allow the user to verify the ISO file. Trust it!
EDIT: Downloading from ftp://elektroni.phys.tut.fi/slackware64-14.2-iso/ with wget http://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.slack...nstall-dvd.iso download will finish in 3.5 hours. I will check the hash. I need a new ISO image disk for a new laptop. I had a crash on one of my external drives so I lost my original Slackware64 14.2 Install ISO. I cannot find the DVD so I will generate a boot ISO and do the install. I could have done the download from a Desktop and the time would have been cut in half.Too lazy to go to the LAB. I am sitting here watching Golf since our course is closed due to the major rain storms here that flood the course. Pro closed the course and it looks like we won't be on until after next Tuesday.
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
Last edited by onebuck; 09-02-2016 at 12:38 PM.
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