[Echo Talon]

awww man.. im so bummed out... I just tried to download alinux.iso from distrowatch.com with Mepis 6 and when firefox download manager said the file was complete it was nowhere to be found on my hdd... :( any suggestions? the file was a little over 700mb's is that to large for ext3 partion or something? guess I will download it again via windows..

[ThePythonicCow]

A file of 700 Mb is certainly not too large for ext3. To find your download file, try doing:

find / -mtime -1 -size +500000

at a shell prompt, which should find any file modified in the last day of size 500Mb or larger. It will take several minutes, or more, depending on the size of your file system and speed of disk.

Or perhaps try downloading some other small file, and notice carefully as you do so where the Firefox download dialog says it is putting the file. Good chance your linux .iso is in that same directory.

Or use wget or curl to download the file, instead of your browser, so you have more control over, and visibility into, what is happening.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I downloaded aLinux using Vector Linux, no problem getting it and burning the CD...but aLinux is questionable in my mind, not worth doing much effort on it.