Re: Fedora 4 DVD install image missing?
"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]>
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Bruce Feist <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm about to install Fedora 4 (64 bit version) on a new > computer. So, I went to find the DVD image on the RH Fedora > site, but found only CD images. Then I looked at the > mirrors, and found that some of them had the DVD image as > well as the CD images. How can this be? Many HTTP clients are buggy and do not support >2GiB files. Red Hat avoids having to deal with that support issue by only allowing >2GiB downloads via FTP. At least in those cases, the FTP protocol (which is a file transfer protocol and not a stream protocol like HTTP) would at least give you an error of some sort. > I downloaded a DVD image from one of the mirrors, and > burned a DVD... Fedora's CD check during installation > reported that it's defective. I'm currently trying again, > with an image from a different mirror; I'm not optimistic > that it'll work; we'll see. If it doesn't work, I'll > either download the CD images from RedHat, or install from > a 32-bit install image instead (if I get way too lazy). Is the size of the .iso only ~2147MB? If so, you do not have a HTTP client that is capable of >2GiB downloads. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:[email protected] | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers) -- amd64-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list