[tommytabib]

WAIT!!

I've just discovered something. If i go to one of mandriva's HTTP mirrors and i click to download the 4.3gig i586 iso.

When i start the download in firefox it shows the download box and says it downloaded say (for example) "2mb out of 4327mb". But if i click exactly the same link in either internet explorer or opera web browser or netscape it doesn't say im downloading "2mb out of 4327mb" it says im downloading "2mb out of 216mb".

Ok, i know my wording is going to be hard to understand but when i download it in firefox it says the file is 4.3gig but when i click the same link in IE7 or Opera or Netscape it says the file is only 216mb (actually my memory is not that good so it could be 261mb or something like that, either way you get the idea).

Could someone tell me whats going on and maybe see if it happens to them also?

P.S. when i click it in IE7 my bittorrent client comes up and tries to download it, but after closing bittorrent a normal IE7 download window comes up.

[budman7]

The mandriva free iso is 4.3 gig.
The 3rd one down on the link you provided shows the same size to me in Linux and Windows.

[tommytabib]

The 3rd one down on the link you provided shows the same size to me in Linux and Windows.

What browser are you using, firefox?

Anyhow doesn't matter now i downloaded it last night from vnunet.com, my new favorite website :P.

I'll try and burn it and install it today when i get the time.

[tommytabib]

It's me again;

I should probably let this thread die already but , as of about 4mins ago, I installed mandriva spring!!!!

Yes i finally got it to work.

As ive said after a week of trying (faulty and unreliable mirrors and torrents), i managed to successfully download the iso but i could not burn it and got errors everytime and ended up with just a bunch of wrecked DVD's (i tried k3b, nero, cdburnerxp, cd/dvd writer). Then i remembered about two months ago i had the same problem burning an iso and the way i fixed it was to burn the iso with "Alcohol 120%".

I then realized that in using alcohol 120% about two months ago i had ran out my trial period of three days.....*sigh* so i shamefully downloaded a cracked/patched version of alcohol 120% using limewire. And what do you know it worked!

I'm not sure what it is that alcohol 120% has that neither; k3b, nero, CDburnerXP or gnomes default cd/dvd writer have.

Can anyone shed some light on that for me?

Anyways in the end all worked out fine (though i did have to technically break the law and download cracked software to do so, im not proud of that but i didn't want to pay out for the software if i wasn't even sure if it would work).

HAHAHAH it works, bananas for all

[minthaka]

Alcohol120% have never impressed me. In my Windows era I used Nero (cracked) and CDBurnerXP and Roxio. I was a sober man. No Alcohol at all. K3b is the best CD/DVD burner I saw so far, except that it dislikes MPEG files over 2 GB and regularly creates wretched disks with them. But no problem with .iso files at all!