On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:20:25 -0700 Greg Morgan <drkludge@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:07:08 -0700 > > Greg Morgan <drkludge@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>I saw the announcement of wget Karsten Hopp on the Announcement list. > >>..."This new release of wget adds support for large files >2Gb, p.e. DVD > >>ISOs."... I was trying to ftp the DVD ISO file. The ftp transfer was > >>hung. It may have been killed by the ftp server. I had to kill the ftp > >>transfer. I downloaded the wget rpm and used rpm -Fvh to install it on > >>FC2. wget -V reports > >>wget -V > >>GNU Wget 1.9+cvs-stable (Red Hat modified) > >>.... > >>I used wget -c > >>ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-DVD.iso last > >>night before going to bed. I woke up to > >>87% [+++++++++++++++++++++========> ] 2,147,476,904 12.92K/s ETA > >>4:08:22File size limit exceeded > > > > > >>The complete trace of the session follows. I am leaving for work. > >>Please let me know if I need to buzilla this because it is not pilot error. > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > Please wait with bugzilla: I suspect it is a problem on your side. > > > > Can you please give the output of the following commands: Hi Greg, > > 3. "rpm -qi wget" > > Name : wget Relocations: (not relocatable) > Version : 1.9.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. > Release : 16.fc2 Build Date: Wed 27 Oct 2004 OK, you have the right version (just to make sure). > > 4. "df ." (in the working dir) > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > baloo:/home/fdrive 183800916 47490516 126973828 28% /home/fdrive > > 5. "mount" > > baloo:/home/fdrive on /home/fdrive type nfs (rw,nfsvers=2,addr=172.20.3.55) You are trying to download the image to a mounted NFS v2 filesystem. The maximum filesize on NFS v2 is 2 GB. So that explains why wget stopped at 2 GB. Do your download on a different filesystem that does not have this limit (for example a local filesystem or NFS version >= 3) and it will work. Not a wget problem ! greetings, Rob van Nieuwkerk