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15-Mar-2008, 11:25 AM #1
Suse downloads as a 0 bytes iso
I've had this problem several times in the past, but only with Suse. I try to download Suse DVD or opensuse, click to save it to my PC, and it immediately comes back to say download complete. I've tried this on both my home PCs running XP home and Pro with the same results. I've never downloaded it on my XP pro, so it can't be sensing it is already downloaded. Ubuntu downloads fine. What is it with Suse?
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15-Mar-2008, 12:02 PM #2
I do not know what is going on with how you download - I usually right-click on Save As to my Desktop or use the middle-click on an actual download link (does same thing). Some download links take you to a new webpage where you have to select a download server.

Try downloading the SuSe ISO from this web page, i.e. there are many download links for Linux Live CD ISOs on this web page.

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16-Mar-2008, 09:33 AM #3
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I've had this problem several times in the past, but only with Suse. I try to download Suse DVD or opensuse, click to save it to my PC, and it immediately comes back to say download complete. I've tried this on both my home PCs running XP home and Pro with the same results. I've never downloaded it on my XP pro, so it can't be sensing it is already downloaded. Ubuntu downloads fine. What is it with Suse?
Try through lotuseclat79s' link.

Sounds like you are downloading the link to a torrent file rather than the file itself.

I just downloaded it myself a week ago via torrent. Mega seeders. Less than 2 1/2 hours for 4.1 GB download(486.3 KB/s average). Haven't even looked at it yet though as I usually wait until I have seeded back to a good ratio in case I mess up the torrent file someway somehow. So many seeders I am averaging only 8.6KB/s upload.

I haven't bothered learning how to upload a file yet to rectify if I do mess it up.

Good luck,
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16-Mar-2008, 01:12 PM #4
I'm using this site:
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/

When I click on the link SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso ,
I get a dialog box stating 'Download complete' ("0 bytes in 1 second", it's supposed to be 3.5GB). This is not the bit torrent link. I turned off my firewall, but no help.

The webpage link worked, but the suse link was bad. I'll keep looking.
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16-Mar-2008, 01:25 PM #5
Copy the string: "http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso" without the quotes into your browser address location bar and click on the goto arrow to see if that helps.

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16-Mar-2008, 05:27 PM #6
Thanks. Nope--same results. The CD download works.

BTW, I read another post of yours regarding Wine for running Windows-based games. I'm not familiar with it except that it supposedly has bugs--any problems running this?
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16-Mar-2008, 05:31 PM #7
Try it and see. Supposedly, doesn't always mean it will bite you! Caveat: I don't run it because I run in a Live CD environment with only 1GB of RAM. Since I don't need it, I don't use it.

Maybe, because the DVD download is 3.5GB you need 4GB of RAM to download by default, unless, that is you can reset the target (of the download) to download to a DVD device which I have seen done on a my friend's Vista machine. We downloaded about 2GB directly to a DVD on his machine instead of download and writing to RAM.

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16-Mar-2008, 05:32 PM #8
Thanks. Nope--same results. The CD download works.

BTW, I read another post of yours regarding Wine for running Windows-based games. I'm not familiar with it except that it supposedly has bugs--any problems running this?
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16-Mar-2008, 05:56 PM #9
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I'm using this site:
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/

When I click on the link SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso ,
I get a dialog box stating 'Download complete' ("0 bytes in 1 second", it's supposed to be 3.5GB). This is not the bit torrent link. I turned off my firewall, but no help.

The webpage link worked, but the suse link was bad. I'll keep looking.
It works for me.
I just tried it.
SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso 05-Oct-2005 18:26 3454M

Tells me it is a binary file. Do I want to save to disc, yes, starts download.

The one I got is openSuse 10.3-GM-i386-iso. I think the 10.0 will require much more to download and update after getting the .iso

Try this link:
http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version

Edit: I am using Firefox with Download Status bar.
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17-Mar-2008, 10:08 AM #10
Hi FarRed,

RootbeaR's response reminded me of another way you might try. If you have an FTP program,
especially easier if you do this on Linux, you could issue the following commands:
$ ftp http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/
> bin
> get ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso
> quit

Of course, this assumes you have 3.5GB of RAM to put it into, unless you figure out how to write directly to your DVD device with a blank dvd disc inserted.

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