Are you trying to save the ISO on a FAT32 partition?

On Jan 29, 2008 8:21 AM, Ronald Allan Tomimbang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> hi!
>
> guys, this is nasty! i remember during my University days when I was
> sysadim, we use to download files with sizes 4.4GB (e.g. iso images in DVD
> format). is done with a breeze.  Now, when i do:
> wget -c http://some-some-site/dvd/<platform>/<some-dvd-iso-format.iso
>
> after fetching 4.0GB i get an error:  File Size Exceeded (core dumped).
> after googlling a bit i saw that this is not the only case. note that i am
> doing this on a network that has on restrictive policies inplaced.  meaning
> "download to your  hearts content"!  issuing the command  ulimit doesn't
> help at all.
>
> 1) is there any  thing from the group who have learned to overcome this
> problem?
> 2) is this a sort of version issue? a bug on the tcp/ip stack?
> 3) test where done on debian40r0, debian40r1, ubuntu6.06,ubuntu7.04,
> ubuntu7.10,SLES10.
>
> anyone from the list who could provide me an indepth understanding or some
> idea on what's causing this issue?
>
> is there a policy placed to the internet infrastructure? which limits such
> fetching activities?
>
>
>
> --
> Ronald Allan V. Tomimbang
>
>
>
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