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From: Grant on 15 Jun 2010 18:11
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:41:10 +0000 (UTC), root <NoEMail(a)home.org> wrote:

>Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure that it is the ftp server that aborts the download and not
>> your ftp client? Which ftp client are you using? What kind of file system
>> are you saving the image to?
>
>I am using whatever client comes with Slack 13.0.
>Now that you mention it, the 2Gb limit may be
>the problem even though several of the mirrors
>stopped well short of 2Gb.
>
>As far as I am concerned, the mirrors are obsolete:
>torrents are the only way to go. See my footnote.

Not the only way, once you have a local copy of the install tree it
is trivial to keep that local tree up to date with rsync. Make your
own install CD or DVD when -current becomes the next release.

Here I simply make an install CD and perform network install, make
a DVD if I'm installing to a machine offsite (and leave the DVD there).

Grant.
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From: Helmut Hullen on 16 Jun 2010 01:55
Hallo, root,

Du meintest am 15.06.10:

> I want to download the 13.1 DVD. Half a dozen
> sites in the US have stopped sending when I
> get 2Gb or so.

That's the problem of your download program. With what program do you
work?

For FTP I prefer "mc" (interactive) or "lftp", for HTTP "lynx"
(interactive), "curl" or "wget".

No browser download for files greater than 2 GByte.

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

From: Henrik Carlqvist on 16 Jun 2010 02:11
root <NoEMail(a)home.org> wrote:

> Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote:
>> Are you sure that it is the ftp server that aborts the download and not
>> your ftp client? Which ftp client are you using?

> I am using whatever client comes with Slack 13.0.

Hmmm... I can't tell for sure if /bin/ftp was compiled with large file
support, but that might not be the case. My personal ftp client is lftp.
It has some nice features like regetting previously aborted downloads from
where they got aborted. It also seems as if lftp was compiled with support
for large files:

~> strings /bin/ftp | grep fopen
fopen

~> strings /usr/bin/lftp | grep fopen
fopen64

The above tests were done on Slackware 12.0. Sometimes I also use wget to
download files and that one looks good to:

~> strings /usr/bin/wget | grep fopen
fopen64

regards Henrik
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From: William Hunt on 16 Jun 2010 09:03
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> root <NoEMail(a)home.org> wrote:
>> Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote:
>>> Are you sure that it is the ftp server that aborts the download and not
>>> your ftp client? Which ftp client are you using?
>> I am using whatever client comes with Slack 13.0.
>
> Hmmm... I can't tell for sure if /bin/ftp was compiled with large file
> support, but that might not be the case. My personal ftp client is lftp.
> It has some nice features like regetting previously aborted downloads from
> where they got aborted. It also seems as if lftp was compiled with support
> for large files:
>
> ~> strings /bin/ftp | grep fopen
> fopen
> ~> strings /usr/bin/lftp | grep fopen
> fopen64
[...]
> ~> strings /usr/bin/wget | grep fopen
> fopen64jjjjjjjjjjjj%^^

myself uses rsync, which also uses fopen64.

my favourite mirror is slackware.mirrors.tds.net,
which gives me 8 mbs downloads, and no prob with large files.

It's a moot point, now that OP has solved their problem
using a torrent, but it should be noted that, considering
the time and trouble the OP has had with ftp, it might have
been cheaper to order up and shiny new DVD, complete with
slackware logo, at slackware.com.


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William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA
From: barnabyh on 16 Jun 2010 10:48
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:03:59 -0700
William Hunt <wjh(a)prv8.net> wrote:

>
> It's a moot point, now that OP has solved their problem
> using a torrent, but it should be noted that, considering
> the time and trouble the OP has had with ftp, it might have
> been cheaper to order up and shiny new DVD, complete with
> slackware logo, at slackware.com.
>
>

Good point, but may take too long to arrive for the OP. It's always
good to order one anyway though ;) .

I should add that ftp.slackware.com seems very slow outside North
America, and mirrorservice can be troublesome too, at least at some
point some of the mirrors were outdated and simply did not exist any
longer.

Since I am in Northern Europe using ftp.slackware.no directly has always
been outstandingly fast and reliable. I've never tried any of the UK
ones though, but in theory the geographically closest mirror should give
the best speed given the same pipe and load.

Barnaby

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