[CentOS] download centos 5.2

Sun Jun 29 07:21:05 UTC 2008
fabian dacunha <fabian at baladia.gov.kw>

> fabian dacunha wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have download the centos 5.2 iso from the Centos website but the
>> downloaded file seems to be split in 2 parts
>>
>> 52617147 Jun 28 23:45 CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
>> 3967983685 Jun 19 20:24 CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.1
>>
>>
>> i also ran a md5sum but the md5 checksum is different
>>
>> i would appreciate if someone cd help me
>> or tell me a site where i cd download CentOS 5.2
>>
>
> hard to say what happened when you downloaded,  what program did you use
> to download it it?    `wget` has a habit of creating a .1 file if its
> told to download a file that already exists in the same directory.
> obviously, that first file you list above is way too short.   Its
> possible that 2nd file is the whole .iso, did you run a md5sum against it
> ?
>
> Most of the mirrors do NOT have the DVD .iso file as its just too
> big.      I'd suggest using a torrent program such as rtorrent or
> ctorrent or whatever, with the .torrent file that should have been in
> the same directory as that .ISO
>

Thanks john for ur immediade reply
actually i used wget to download it
but im 100% sure there was no file b4 in the same directory with the same
name
also the md5sum was different as i said b4 for the second file

actually here the message for you info

wget http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
--23:38:42-- 
http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
Resolving centos.bio.lmu.de... 141.84.43.23, 2001:4ca0:4300::1:17
Connecting to centos.bio.lmu.de|141.84.43.23|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4020600832 (3.7G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso'

 1% [                                              ] 52,617,147   119K/s  
in 6m 55s

23:45:37 (124 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 52617147. Retrying.

--23:45:38--  (try: 2) 
http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
Connecting to centos.bio.lmu.de|141.84.43.23|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4020600832 (3.7G), 3967983685 (3.7G) remaining
[application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.1'

100%[===========================================>] 4,020,600,832  179K/s  
in 5h 25m

05:11:37 (198 KB/s) - `CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.1' saved
[4020600832/4020600832]
---------------

i think i should use torrent to download it

actually i had downloaded centos 5.0 before in the same way

thnksss
fabian

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