twanj Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 (edited) Hi, Has anyone tried metalinks for Mandriva ISO downloads? They can list multiple mirrors & p2p, along with full file checksums like the .md5 or .sha1 files you already have and chunk checksums which allow downloads to be repaired. they're a simple XML format with automated tools for generating them. there's more info on wikipedia. aria2 is a good CLI client for downloading, and most other download managers on Windows and Mac support it. If you'd like to try it out, there are a few .metalinks for Mandriva at http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html The downloads are usually very fast and if the download client uses the chunk checksums they will be error free, which is especially nice for DVD ISOs. Edited May 3, 2007 by twanj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted May 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#mandriva now has .metalinks for the DVD, KDE, and GNOME CD ISOs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted July 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 (edited) DownThemAll! 1.0 Beta (Cross platform Firefox extension) now supports metalink downloads from mirrors and full file checksum verification. Edited July 16, 2007 by twanj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Thanks for the Windows screenshot, however you'll find we use Linux here ;) If there is a Linux client for this, please provide it, else you'll find this will fall on dead ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Thanks for the Windows screenshot, however you'll find we use Linux here ;) If there is a Linux client for this, please provide it, else you'll find this will fall on dead ears. It's a firefox extention, thus it's cross platform. Or at least, I know this one is. There's also a tonne of metalink command line clients. No need to be so cold ianw :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Ah OK, I should have read it more clearly :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Thanks for the Windows screenshot, however you'll find we use Linux here ;) If there is a Linux client for this, please provide it, else you'll find this will fall on dead ears. sorry man, I edited my post to make it clear that DTA is a Firefox extension that works on any OS. :) however, it's good to have clients on Windows, because you want people on there to be able to get your ISOs as easy as possible to install them, don't you? for that, there are 9 metalink clients. here are the other Linux clients: aria2, KGet (KDE4 version), Phex, wxDownload Fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 (edited) aria2 is an exhellent+idiot proof CLI downloader. Phex is basically a P2P (*tella) application written in Java, with elementary support for other networks, while wxDownload is a strong candidate for the title of the most frequent segfaulter between all Linux appplications. Edited July 18, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 aria2 is an exhellent+idiot proof CLI downloader. Phex is basically a P2P (*tella) application written in Java, with elementary support for other networks, while wxDownload is a strong candidate for the title of the most frequent segfaulter between all Linux appplications. HAH! wxDF isn't the most stable app, you're right. I really like aria2 myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I may have to go and get this. Here at work when I try to get the dvd iso it only downloads a file that is 261mb instead of the 4.3gig. Anyone know why that is? And I've tried different mirrors and different distros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 That will happen if you try and download to a FAT32 partition. FAT32 partitions cannot handle files larger than 4GB. You have to use a Linux native partition or an NTFS partition. It can also be caused by the application you're using to download the ISOs. Internet Explorer doesn't handle >4GB files well, for instance - use Firefox or (preferably) a dedicated download app of some kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I may have to go and get this. Here at work when I try to get the dvd iso it only downloads a file that is 261mb instead of the 4.3gig. Anyone know why that is? And I've tried different mirrors and different distros. What platform + apps are you using to download on? I wouldn't use Firefox, I don't think it can download files > 2 GB, and almost definitely not > 4 GB. Even if it could, you'd want something more reliable. aria2 works good for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Here's one for the new release... http://www.metalinker.org/samples/mandriva...86.iso.metalink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 (edited) What platform + apps are you using to download on? I wouldn't use Firefox, I don't think it can download files > 2 GB, and almost definitely not > 4 GB. Even if it could, you'd want something more reliable. aria2 works good for me. This is party wrong, and partly correct. It's not Firefox the one to blame, it's just that some (= actually the majority of them!) http servers do not allow downloading files larger than 2GB. For me d4x downloads files larger than 4 GB via http just fine, but if the http server does not support such transfers, there is NOTHING that can be done... Use an ftp/bittorrent link instead. Edited August 10, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twanj Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 This is party wrong, and partly correct. It's not Firefox the one to blame, it's just that some (= actually the majority of them!) http servers do not allow downloading files larger than 2GB. For me d4x downloads files larger than 4 GB via http just fine, but if the http server does not support such transfers, there is NOTHING that can be done... Use an ftp/bittorrent link instead. Check out: http://www.kernel.org/faq/#largefiles Q. I can't download a file with size greater than 2GB, is your website broken?A. No, kernel.org is not broken your browser however doesn't like large files. Browsers have to make assumptions about what is all going on when you're browsing the web. By and large those assumptions work fine, however 2GB files (in the case of the dvd iso's they can be up to 4GB or bigger) the browser's assumptions fail. ... Clients that are known to NOT work: * Mozilla, Firefox, Anything based on Gecko - it assumes a 2GB limit. Necko - Allow handling of files > 2gig (>2 GB) - Necko is the underlying networking framework for Firefox and this bug is not yet fixed. True, many http servers don't support files larger than 2 gb. apache didn't even until 2.2/2.0.53. So yes, you're partly correct :) so I guess there are at least three limiting factors: local filesystem, client, server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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