# SLES 12 torrent? **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Install-Boot\ **Created:** [December 6, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459 "2014-12-06T15:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/1 "2014-12-06T15:40:14Z")
greetings, I’ve been trying to download sles 12 for over a week now and each time either the download terminates abruptly or the md5sum fails. Does anyone know where I can download sles 12 via torrent. I never have problems with torrent downloads. ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/2 "2014-12-07T14:54:41Z")
[QUOTE=iomari;25292]greetings, I’ve been trying to download sles 12 for over a week now and each time either the download terminates abruptly or the md5sum fails. Does anyone know where I can download sles 12 via torrent. I never have problems with torrent downloads.[/QUOTE] SUSE do not provide a torrent for SLES. You’re not trying to save the download to a FAT filesystem which has a 2GB file size limit, are you? ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/3 "2014-12-08T08:31:48Z")
> [@mikewillis;25298](#): > > SUSE do not provide a torrent for SLES. You’re not trying to save the download to a FAT filesystem which has a 2GB file size limit, are you? No. ext4 file system. It seems that the generated download link may only work on the system that it is generated on. I can’t download on the system I browse with due to file download file size restriction. So I use the generated link on one of my servers which has no gui. Since I can’t get a generated link on the server, I tried to just download the link from wget on the command line but at various points it breaks. Sometimes as little as 2 meg, other times 2 gig but never completes. here is a typical session: [COLOR=“#0000CD”]-\> wget -t 0 -c -O sles12\_DVD1.iso ‘[All Products | SUSE](https://download.suse.com/sendredirect?target=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.novell.com%2Fprot%2FFFg0PzSTGrw%7E%2FSLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso%3F5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0&buildid=FFg0PzSTGrw~&fileid=rsZqUo7jDCQ~&mirror=AkamaiHost&nohost=false&ws=true)’ –2014-12-08 07:31:46-- [https://download.suse.com/sendredirect?target=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.novell.com%2Fprot%2FFFg0PzSTGrw~%2FSLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso%3F5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0&buildid=FFg0PzSTGrw~&fileid=rsZqUo7jDCQ~&mirror=AkamaiHost&nohost=false&ws=true](https://download.suse.com/sendredirect?target=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.novell.com%2Fprot%2FFFg0PzSTGrw%7E%2FSLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso%3F5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0&buildid=FFg0PzSTGrw~&fileid=rsZqUo7jDCQ~&mirror=AkamaiHost&nohost=false&ws=true) Resolving [download.suse.com](http://download.suse.com)… 130.57.66.10 Connecting to download.suse.com|130.57.66.10|:443… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Moved Temporarily Location: [http://cdn.novell.com/prot/FFg0PzSTGrw~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0](http://cdn.novell.com/prot/FFg0PzSTGrw~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0) [following] –2014-12-08 07:31:47-- [http://cdn.novell.com/prot/FFg0PzSTGrw~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0](http://cdn.novell.com/prot/FFg0PzSTGrw~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515ee43d7f1ef6a6119cf821736c279988d82cde3f469355144a59032612263a6620e4f2e719d825a985771a3a4688a67b4366f0) Resolving [cdn.novell.com](http://cdn.novell.com)… 93.184.221.133 Connecting to cdn.novell.com|93.184.221.133|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found Location: [http://www.attachmategroup.com/403.html](http://www.attachmategroup.com/403.html) [following] –2014-12-08 07:31:47-- [http://www.attachmategroup.com/403.html](http://www.attachmategroup.com/403.html) Resolving [www.attachmategroup.com](https://www.attachmategroup.com)… 130.57.66.19 Connecting to [www.attachmategroup.com|130.57.66.19|:80](https://www.attachmategroup.com|130.57.66.19|:80)… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently Location: [http://www.microfocusinternational.com/](http://www.microfocusinternational.com/) [following] –2014-12-08 07:31:48-- [http://www.microfocusinternational.com/](http://www.microfocusinternational.com/) Resolving [www.microfocusinternational.com](https://www.microfocusinternational.com)… 130.57.66.11 Connecting to [www.microfocusinternational.com|130.57.66.11|:80](https://www.microfocusinternational.com|130.57.66.11|:80)… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: “sles12\_DVD1.iso” ``` [<=>] 5,872 --.-K/s in 0.001s ``` 2014-12-08 07:31:48 (4.80 MB/s) - “sles12\_DVD1.iso” saved [5872][/COLOR] This whole process took a whopping 2 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/4 "2014-12-08T10:34:35Z")
[QUOTE=iomari;25303]No. ext4 file system. It seems that the generated download link may only work on the system that it is generated on. I can’t download on the system I browse with due to file download file size restriction. So I use the generated link on one of my servers which has no gui. Since I can’t get a generated link on the server, I tried to just download the link from wget on the command line… [/QUOTE] Oh, I see. I have done this, multiple times. E.g. use Firefox to get the download url then ssh in to my NAS box and run wget under screen to download the iso. The trick is in the cookies. Assuming you’re using Firefox, install this Add-On [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/) if you’re not using Firefox find a way to export your web browser’s cookies in to a Netscape standard cookies.txt file. Copy the cookies.txt to the machine you’re running wget on, then ```auto $ wget --load-cookies /path/to/cookies.txt "https://download/url" -O whatever.iso ``` For future reference, wrapping stuff like the output of commands in CODE tags makes it more readable and prevents the forums from applying formatting to it. Look for the # button in the toolbar when composing. ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/5 "2014-12-08T16:13:35Z")
Thanks Mike. That did it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/6 "2014-12-21T15:18:39Z")
I spoke too soon. I’ve done the cookies thing and it starting fine.But after around 75% it died again. Now it just dies after a few bytes again. Is there any direct download link? ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/7 "2014-12-21T18:23:13Z")
> [@iomari;25496](#): > > I spoke too soon. I’ve done the cookies thing and it starting fine.But after around 75% it died again. Now it just dies after a few bytes again. Is there any direct download link? The only links to the isos are the ones you’ve found. Direct link to where? I’m not sure a different link is going to help you. It sounds like the problem is probably not where you’re downloading from but the stability of your 'net connection. When you download from [suse.com](http://suse.com) the actual iso comes from somewhere on the Akami content distribution network so you should be downloading from the mirror closest to you. I’m afraid I don’t know what the solution is to downloading the iso if you can’t get it all in one go, it’s not a problem I’ve ever had. (The last iso I downloaded from SUSE was SLED 12, 4GB, took less than 10 minutes.) You’re using -c in the wet command you originally posted, does that not work to resume a broken download? I’ve just realised you don’t need to bother with cookies. On the download page there’s a link ‘how to use a download manager’ which describes using wget with no mention of cookies. I just tried the download and it works find without cookies. Now I think about it the most recent times I’ve fed wget cookies from Firefox to get isos from SUSE I was doing it for isos of restricted access beta versions. ---
**Author:** ![Jim1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/jim1/32/9120_2.png) [@Jim1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jim1)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/8 "2014-12-21T21:38:36Z")
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:24:02 +0000, iomari wrote: [color=blue] > I spoke too soon. I’ve done the cookies thing and it starting fine.But > after around 75% it died again. Now it just dies after a few bytes > again. Is there any direct download link?[/color] You might try using aria2c to download it - that might help with resuming and using multiple connections to attempt the download. Jim – Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10 Novell/SUSE/NetIQ Knowledge Partner ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/9 "2014-12-23T12:57:02Z")
Thanks guys, I’ll try the aria2c and see if that works. I’ll get back to you both. ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/10 "2014-12-23T13:42:20Z")
Hey guys, Here’s the result. As you can see it completed after only a few bytes. This is not a link breaking issue. I started with no partial download and the server I’m using has a very good link. Am I using a wrong url? I copied it directly from the Suse download page. [COLOR=#0000CD][root]# aria2c -x4 -o SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso “[http://cdn.novell.com/prot/1RBC-NrdggI~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515e](http://cdn.novell.com/prot/1RBC-NrdggI~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515e) e43d7f1ef6a6119cf8217c6c23918f3a38db1801dacaa229db7acb2f15f431a36c325f6e55d5ee172c133dd50bf5970a7017” [#2495e2 0B/0B CN:1 DL:503B] 12/23 12:36:58 [NOTICE] Download complete: /home/i6net/DL/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso Download Results: gid |stat|avg speed |path/URI ======+====+===========+======================================================= 2495e2|OK | 476B/s|/home/i6net/DL/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso[/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/11 "2014-12-23T13:55:41Z")
[QUOTE=iomari;25531]Hey guys, Here’s the result. As you can see it completed after only a few bytes. This is not a link breaking issue. I started with no partial download and the server I’m using has a very good link. Am I using a wrong url? I copied it directly from the Suse download page. [COLOR=#0000CD][root]# aria2c -x4 -o SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso “[http://cdn.novell.com/prot/1RBC-NrdggI~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515e](http://cdn.novell.com/prot/1RBC-NrdggI~/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso?5bc3650926e7f0c7ef48580b7c5f13515e) e43d7f1ef6a6119cf8217c6c23918f3a38db1801dacaa229db7acb2f15f431a36c325f6e55d5ee172c133dd50bf5970a7017” [#2495e2 0B/0B CN:1 DL:503B] 12/23 12:36:58 [NOTICE] Download complete: /home/i6net/DL/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso Download Results: gid |stat|avg speed |path/URI ======+====+===========+======================================================= 2495e2|OK | 476B/s|/home/i6net/DL/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso[/COLOR][/QUOTE] I would expect to see ```auto ~&mirror=AkamaiHost&nohost=false ``` on the end of that url. All the download urls I get have that on. Though I just tried omitting it and the link still worked. What is the output of ```auto $ file /home/i6net/DL/SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso ``` Maybe it’s text and there’s a clue in it. Maybe. I just download the iso with wget in 48 seconds. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/12 "2014-12-23T14:12:56Z")
I looked at the output of SLE-12-Server-DVD-x86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso. I didn’t see anything obvious. [http://pastebin.com/9vPKnbLC](http://pastebin.com/9vPKnbLC) ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/13 "2014-12-23T14:53:33Z")
BTW, what is on the 2nd 4GIG DVD? More apps or source code? ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/14 "2014-12-23T15:13:04Z")
> [@iomari;25534](#): > > BTW, what is on the 2nd 4GIG DVD? More apps or source code? It’s sources. The .src.rpm. Unless you know why you want it, you don’t need it. 😉 It would be super helpful if the download page bothered to explain this but for some reason it doesn’t, none of the download pages for the various product isos do. ---
**Author:** ![iomari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ba0ec/32.png) [@iomari](https://forums.suse.com/u/iomari)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/15 "2014-12-23T18:16:23Z")
Thanks for everything Mike. That sure save me a lot of stress. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-12-torrent/26459/16 "2014-12-23T19:49:53Z")
> [@iomari;25538](#): > > Thanks for everything Mike. That sure save me a lot of stress. 🙂 I guess my re-hosted in chucks version worked for you then. Still curious why you had so much trouble with the official download though.