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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.)
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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