Download Elementary Linux Without a USB StickG

swamprat · 01-11-2019, 10:57 AM

Greetings, anyone know how to download Elementary Linux ISO without a USB stick. I don't have one and I would like to just download the ISO. Thanks

BW-userx · 01-11-2019, 11:14 AM

you seem to have a means to get to the internet so just download it.

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https://elementary.io/docs/installation

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ondoho · 01-11-2019, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by swamprat

Greetings, anyone know how to download Elementary Linux ISO without a USB stick. I don't have one and I would like to just download the ISO. Thanks

surely the downloading itself isn't the problem?
then you can

burn it on a CD or a DVD and boot from that
even point grub to boot straight from the .iso (this has been discussed here and elsewhere, use the search)

teckk · 01-11-2019, 04:39 PM

Code:

wget --spider http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/downloa...e.20181016.iso
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
...
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1478492160 (1.4G) [application/octet-stream]
Remote file exists.

mrmazda · 05-01-2019, 01:19 AM

http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/downloa...e.20181016.iso is apparently now useless. Wget fetched a 9160 byte .iso with null content. Apparently there's no way to test drive Elementary for free. At least, I struck out trying to find a way.

individual · 05-01-2019, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by mrmazda

http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/downloa...e.20181016.iso is apparently now useless. Wget fetched a 9160 byte .iso with null content. Apparently there's no way to test drive Elementary for free. At least, I struck out trying to find a way.

Sure you can. Since it's a "pay what you want" model, you can choose to pay $0.00USD. But I saved you the trouble of doing that.

teckk · 05-01-2019, 06:43 AM

Code:

wget --spider http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU1NjcxMDMwMw==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
...
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1478492160 (1.4G) [application/octet-stream]
Remote file exists.

curl -I https://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU1NjcxMDMwMw==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
HTTP/2 200 
server: nginx/1.14.0
date: Wed, 01 May 2019 11:28:47 GMT
content-type: application/octet-stream
content-length: 1478492160
...

HEAD http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU1NjcxMDMwMw==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
200 OK
Cache-Control: no-transform
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 11:25:55 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "5bc61d15-58200000"
Server: nginx/1.14.0
Content-Length: 1478492160
...

lynx -head -dump https://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU1NjcxMDMwMw==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.14.0
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 11:29:19 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 1478492160
...

mrmazda · 05-01-2019, 07:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by individual

Sure you can. Since it's a "pay what you want" model, you can choose to pay $0.00USD.

I tried simply 0 and got no response. It didn't occur to me to try a formatted 0, or a WebKit or Blink browser.

Quote:

But I saved you the trouble of doing that.

It worked. Thank you!

One of my tries before I originally posted here:

Code:

wget http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU0NzI0NjIwMg==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
--2019-05-01 02:13:53--  http://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU0NzI0NjIwMg==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
Resolving nyc3.dl.elementary.io (nyc3.dl.elementary.io)... 104.131.190.176, 2604:a880:800:10::9c3:b001
Connecting to nyc3.dl.elementary.io (nyc3.dl.elementary.io)|104.131.190.176|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU0NzI0NjIwMg==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso [following]
--2019-05-01 02:13:53--  https://nyc3.dl.elementary.io/download/MTU0NzI0NjIwMg==/elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso
Connecting to nyc3.dl.elementary.io (nyc3.dl.elementary.io)|104.131.190.176|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://elementary.io/410 [following]
--2019-05-01 02:13:53--  https://elementary.io/410
Resolving elementary.io (elementary.io)... 104.28.4.44, 104.28.5.44, 2606:4700:30::681c:52c, ...
Connecting to elementary.io (elementary.io)|104.28.4.44|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: 'elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso'

    [ <=>                                                                          ] 9,190       --.-K/s   in 0.002s

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
2019-05-01 02:13:54 (5.47 MB/s) - 'elementaryos-5.0-stable.20181016.iso' saved [9190]