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To: ThePythonicCow
thanks for the help.. it didn't work... maybe firefox deleted it or something? i'll DL it again with windows... firefox said downloading to desktop... i download a small file and it went to the /tmp folder(it was supposed to go to the desktop)
maybe the /tmp folder has a size limitation or something?
32 posted on 05/22/2006 2:34:32 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
There is no inherit size limit on /tmp, other than your available free disk space. Does a command: show enough space (700,000 kbytes) free for your iso file?

I prefer using 'curl' to handle big downloads, as I can see better what's going on and resume a failed download.

33 posted on 05/22/2006 3:29:18 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (We are but Seekers of Truth, not the Source.)
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