AROS iso corrupt on AROS.org?

[chiark]

Hi, I'm trying to use the live ISO, and have downloaded both the snapshot and nightly build.

Using cygwin's bzip2 -d command, both tell me that the archive has been truncated, however the downloads both seems to complete successfully.

Any ideas?  I went to re-download today but the nightly build of the ISO isn't there yet.

[uncharted]

I had the same thing happen to me the other night (17-01-2006 IIRC).  I couldn't extract the source files.  However I downloaded the archive again and it all worked fine.

I don't know why it happened, both times it seemed to downlaod just fine.

[bloodline]

chiark wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to use the live ISO, and have downloaded both the snapshot and nightly build.

Using cygwin's bzip2 -d command, both tell me that the archive has been truncated, however the downloads both seems to complete successfully.

Any ideas?  I went to re-download today but the nightly build of the ISO isn't there yet.

This always seems to happen when one uses IE to download the ISO... I have no idea why it does that.

I suggest you use the ISO from the www.aros-max.co.uk website anyway, as it's much more fun to play with :-D

[uncharted]

There's obviously a problem at your end.  After all, it can't possibly be IE's fault  :roll:

[koaftder]

Ive always had problems with the file that ive yanked from aros.org. I cant remember specifically what that problem is. The file is good, i beleive it's extension was messed up. And i used IE. maybe it was a tar.gz but came in as a .tar or something. Anyway, i found out what it was by looking at it in a hexeditor. or maybe it's extension is tar.gz or .tar or what ever, but it's really just a plain ISO image. It's something simple like that.

But like dude above said, aros max is waaaaay better, get that instead.

uncharted wrote:
There's obviously a problem at your end.  After all, it can't possibly be IE's fault  :roll:

Yes it is.

It works 100% of the time if you use Firefox or Opera or Lynx.

I know.  I've tried. :-)

As Matt said, AROS-Max is a better bet if you want to have a play.  There's lot's more on the CD to play with. :-)

[_ThEcRoW]

What's more? More even than on the contrib files?

[Aminux]

 Will this Live CD  work on PowerUP amigas?

[BadBigBen]

...or maybe it's extension is tar.gz or .tar or what ever...

Yep, or what ever... the extension should be TAR.BZ2 ... and WinRAR (on PC side) takes care of it nicely...

my 0.02€ on that...  :-)

[chiark]

Er, I use firefox and am on 1.5.

Weird.

So what'll Aros Max give me then?    I shall have a play.

[bloodline]

Aminux wrote:

 Will this Live CD  work on PowerUP amigas?

No the nightly builds and AROS-MAX are curerntly x86 PC only.

[Aminux]

 Thanks for the information.

[bloodline]

chiark wrote:

So what'll Aros Max give me then?    I shall have a play.

Lots of fun stuff! :-D

[uncharted]

@mdma

I was joking (hence the smiley)

However that said, just like chiark I also used FF 1.5 and got a dodgy download (but like I said I tried again and it worked fine 2nd time).

[Doobrey]

mdma wrote:
It works 100% of the time if you use Firefox or Opera or Lynx.

I know.  I've tried. :-)

Just chiming in with a 'me too'..
I've tried with both Firefox on Winblows and Safari on the Mac, and have *never* got a complete download from aros.org, although I had no problems with an older snapshot from the BTTR mirror.
 Using a download manager that can resume a failed download works though.