interesting problem

[Rahul]

glenn wrote:
> As mentioned earlier, I decided to suck Knoppix 5.0 to a DVD.  I found 
> on a Knoppix mirror (ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/knoppix-dvd) the 
> distro (4243030 KB in size).
> 
> A couple of hours ago, I started a suck via the HTTP button.  But 
> noticed that it showed the target size would be 2 GB :-(  I let it 
> continue, BUT, when I had rcvd 2 GB, it terminated :-(
> 
> So I went back to the size and used the ftp but and  that is were I got 
> the above info from.  Again I started the download, only to find it was 
> also going to be 2 GB :-(
> 
> Now I am using FC4 as an environment.  Strange.  It is as though the 
> file transfer system doesn't support above 2 GB.
> 
> Any comment?
> 


Release notes has this information. I have even specified the exact last 
version of wget with this limitation in it for the last couple of releases

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-Installer

Rahul