-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 8:01 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hi. > > I've downloaded the first two 9.2 iso's and, to my astonishment, they > appear to be extremely tiny. According to Konq, the first iso has 10 MG and > the other one, 13MG. > In the CLI > cyb: ~\ $ du -h Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso > 11M Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso > > What have I done wrong ? > I downloaded them with wget. > TIA > > P.S.: I was unsubbed. Just came back.
Welcome back. The sizes are definitely wrong but there could be a miriad of reasons. How did you download them? What mirror? The easiest way to get the ISO images for the distribution is by either using an ftp app or using a mirror app or using rsync. This is the contents of the 9.2 iso directory I mirrored from uninett.no: Mandrake/iso]$ ls -l total 2094148 - -rw-rw-r-- 1 nanook nanook 424 Nov 13 09:24 9.2-download.md5sums.asc - -rw-rw-r-- 1 nanook nanook 683642880 Nov 7 11:43 Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso - -rw-rw-r-- 1 nanook nanook 731797504 Nov 7 13:51 Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso - -rw-rw-r-- 1 nanook nanook 728948736 Nov 7 15:20 Mandrake92-cd3-i18n.i586.iso - -rw-rw-r-- 1 nanook nanook 2867 Aug 19 02:56 README - -rw-rw-r-- 1 nanook nanook 173 Nov 13 09:16 README.LG The total size of the disks is shown at the top. As shown above; disk 1 is 652 MB, disk 2 is 697.9 MB and disk 3 is 695.2 MB. You may want to try downloading them again? Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:42:39 up 20:23, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.43, 0.35 Cropp's Law: The amount of work done varies inversly with the time spent in the office. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uk8jG11CaRuZZSIRAufpAKCqkU/3Nzy3o3mNOWKv3Wtd4sVSbgCfcVGj RuaTwD+D3QcUywoEIXS4SWc= =RKhG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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