Got Gutsy DVDs?
Scott (angrykeyboarder)
geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Sun Nov 4 21:54:21 GMT 2007
NoOp spake thusly:
> On 11/04/2007 02:57 AM, Toby Smithe wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 11:38 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 11/01/2007 03:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm downloading the DVD now to see if perhaps I can actually install
>>>> _without_ an existing connection. If so, I'll send her the DVD to try.
>>> Well... so much for downloading the DVD. Tried for two days using both
>>> the standard browser download and wget, and both terminate at
>>> 4,294,934,360 - File size limit exceeded (core dumped). I guess it's
>>> back to the users list for me.
>> Are you downloading onto a FAT filesystem?
>>
>
> That indeed was the problem. Shortly after posting on the user list, I
> found that FAT32 has a size limitation of 4G.
And here I thought all geeks knew this... :)
Speaking of large files, until a few years ago wget couldn't handle
files larger than 2GB (regardless of your filesystem).
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Scott
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