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10-21-2007, 12:13 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Mountain View, CA
Distribution: SuSE Linux 10
Posts: 18
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ISO downloads always abort - argh!
I've never been able to download Linux ISOs. I'd love to try SimplyMepis 6.9 Beta 64, but I always end up having to order a disk - and Betas, of course, aren't available on CD/DVD. My downloads ALWAYS stall at around 550 mb. Any thoughts? Thanks a bunch. (I'm downloading to a WinXP machine.)
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10-21-2007, 01:13 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Slackware,Arch
Posts: 389
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have you tried download from other servers?
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10-21-2007, 01:43 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Chilliwack,BC.Canada
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
Posts: 2,079
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What method/download manager/browser are you using, like are you downloading through bittorrent, or using a download manager
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10-21-2007, 11:07 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Mountain View, CA
Distribution: SuSE Linux 10
Posts: 18
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Thanks for responding. I've tried various servers at the main distro sites: PCLinuxOS, SuSE, Ubuntu, PC-BSD, SimplyMepis, etc. I've also tried various download managers, including Firefox's native download function, and Free Download Manager. Hmm, could this be browser-related? I'll start a download using a different browser (IE) right now and see what happens. Stay tuned...
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10-21-2007, 01:32 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Chilliwack,BC.Canada
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
Posts: 2,079
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I would suggest using bittorrent to download the iso's
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10-21-2007, 02:16 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: CentOS, OS X
Posts: 5,131
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I would suggest using anything except a browser to do the jownload job. I don't know why a browser would differ from some other program in that aspect, but it tends to do cut the downloads for me too when using a browser to download bigger files. I usually use wget to download my ISOs nowadays; I would use torrents, but apparently my ISP is making that difficult by slowing torrent traffic down to 5k/s or less.
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10-21-2007, 02:37 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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I also use 'wget'.
Open your terminal, go to the directory where you want to save the .iso file and type:
$ wget -c location/of/the/file/on/the/server.iso
At any time you can stop it and when you restart it'll resume downloading, you won't lose the data you've already
downloaded.
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10-21-2007, 04:19 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Mountain View, CA
Distribution: SuSE Linux 10
Posts: 18
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Thanks all. Aha, it was the browser. Download of a SimplyMepis beta succeeded using Internet Explorer. I'd try wget as suggested, but don't currently have a Linux distro installed.
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10-21-2007, 05:48 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: The Tropics
Distribution: Slackware & Derivatives
Posts: 2,472
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Wow. Never heard of IE doing better than Firefox. Even when I have to be on a windows computer, I don't use IE...at least you got it working.
Note that Mepis uses (like most Linux distros) Firefox. You can get others, but I've never had a problem downloading with it. I also stay away from torrents, some people say they're fast, I personally have had no luck with them (download lasts a couple days).
To see specific package info, see distrowatch's "article" here.
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10-21-2007, 06:02 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Chilliwack,BC.Canada
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
Posts: 2,079
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phantom_cyph, they are fast if you configure them right
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10-21-2007, 11:18 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Mountain View, CA
Distribution: SuSE Linux 10
Posts: 18
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P.S. Actually, I started the download from IE7, but the actual download was handled by Free Download Manager. Can't remember if I ever tried FDM with Firefox.
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10-22-2007, 04:41 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
Posts: 8,311
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You can get wget for Windows from here:
http://xoomer.alice.it/hherold/
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10-22-2007, 07:30 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Germany, Berlin
Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.1/9.2/9.3/10.0/10.1, openSuSE 10.2, 10.3, Slackware, Debian, Redhat, BSD
Posts: 315
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isn't that nice: downloading linux iso's with IE... very nice, go ahead!!!
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