I was trying to download the Knoppix 5.3.1 dvd iso using wget for windows.
it says that the filesize is 144mb. Still i continued download with the -c switch since my download kept being interrupted.
wget downloaded the file and showed the progress going beyond 100%, upto 1400% and eventually downloaded about 2.1 Gb of the file (total 4.1 Gb). during this time the size and percentage in the progress bar changed to negative(after crossing 2Gb mark). When i terminated and tried

wget -c url

it gave me a 416 error about wrong header or something.
I am stuck with a 2Gb partial download and it wont continue. What can I do?

if you want to download knoppix, then you can just use the torrent version of the knoppix iso file. wget probably has a lot of bugs, since you're running it on windows. the torrents for knoppix run very fast, i got up to 768 kB/s, average 434 kB/s. that's pretty good for my internet at least. and if you get interupted, you don't have to redownload the whole thing. you can pause and restart anytime.

and about that partial iso file you have, it's now worthless, since wget won't continue it. this is why you don't want to download massive files over plain http. bittorrent really saves time when you have to restart the entire download

Hi,

@ciden: I'm not a windows man, but isn't there a 2Gb file limit on (some of??) the windows file systems/caching? A clear case of hearing something somewhere on my site, but it might be worth looking into.

You could try saving the file to a ntfs partition.

I know about the fat32 file size limit. I am using a NTFS partition. I personally use debian but my friend has unlimited bandwidth but runs windows.

Any place where I can get a patched version of wget for windows which can continue where the previous one left off.??

Look at the file in Linux with the "file" command. If there is a 2 gb limit for that program, it may be using 32-bit pointers and may have started the 3rd GB from the begining of the file. The "file" program should say that it is an iso9660 image. If it says "data" then what you have is bad and you need to start over.

A bit "offtopic", but I wouldn't download huge files using http. Using bittorrent would be better idea (you know download size, connection termination won't be fatal). About the problems: several times when I was downloading *.tar.gz with wget I received file in uncompressed form (*.tar instead of *.tar.gz). Not sure why this happened, maybe this is some kind of proxy problem. Maybe something similar happened with you.

I dont have a removable storage above 2 Gb. I have a 2Gb pen drive and in true geek spirit partitioned it into 2 parts, one with GRML and other with data...


<Note: I am so stupid. Why dont I just boot my friends laptop with GRML and check the file ??>
Will do that right now.
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