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Somehow, I imagine they are not hosting these off FAT32 filesystems. Maybe it's IIS that isn't very good with partial HTTP requests... ;-)
FAT32 is common on portable storage (SD cards, USB 'thumb' drives), especially when cross-platform support is a concern.
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FAT32 is common on portable storage (SD cards, USB 'thumb' drives), especially when cross-platform support is a concern.
I understand that FAT32 has a role in portable storage. What I fail to understand is the relation between USB drives and serving VM images.
If you have access to a windows box, here's a better solution: Install IE10 and use the dev tools (F12). there you can set browser emulation to IE 7,8,9,10. doesn't include ie6, but not many people still use it: http://www.ie6countdown.com/
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I understand that FAT32 has a role in portable storage. What I fail to understand is the relation between USB drives and serving VM images.
Sneakernet moving of files to non-network connected devices.
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Hackintoshes are great... if you're content never to update :/
Or have weeks of free time to root out issues with zero documentation except for random forum posts.
LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx LinuxVirtualBox.part2.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part3.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part4.rar LinuxVirtualBox.part5.rar Why? Why the proprietary rar format? I mean, is there any reason to actually use rar over even "only" xz nowadays or for big downloads, zpaq (lrzip is probably not mainstream enough I guess)? And 1000 megabyte parts? Why?
A while back (some time in the last year), they had a few of the files zipped up. There were a lot of support requests for help unzipping it. The files had a >4GiB file inside, requiring zip64 extensions. I remember at the time, my out of the box version of unzip on OS X did not support zip64 extensions - I think 6.0 is when support is added. I'm not arguing for rar in particular, just commenting on the difficulties…
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Sneakernet moving of files to non-network connected devices.
And how common would that use case be when we are talking about virtual machines used in web development?
Copying a 4GB file through a congested wi-fi connection may be very slow
It's easier and faster to copy to a good USB drive
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And how common would that use case be when we are talking about virtual machines used in web development?
Very common Copying a 4GB file through a congested wi-fi connection may be very slow It's easier and faster to copy to a good USB drive
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Hi Tmmrn. I work on the team that made these available. We originally had these as >3Gb single files and had many requests to reduce the file sizes from people who had failed transfers. It also helps when using sneaker net to setup test environments that are isolated and you need USB sticks to move bits around. We went with RAR because: * It's available on all platforms * No client or 3rd party software needed to ext…
My suggestion: use 7-zip Open Source, available on all the major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX). You can find also the MSI version that can be deployed via Active Directory GPO http://www.7-zip.org/download.html Oh, and you can create self-extracting file too (even though I don't know if you can unpack them on other platforms, never tried, but I should bet you can do it)