> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.