Cannot download FreeNAS w/Mac Mojave + Safari

[zamman]

Tried 3 times to download the FreeNAS ISO using Safari on OS/X Mojave.

All 3 times it aborted at 600 Mb.

Specifically at 600.2 Mb, 600.1 Mb, 600.3 Mb

Any ideas?

 

[zamman]

Tried again w/Chome (still on Mac Mojave); worked the first time.

 

[Chris Moore]

That sounds like a bug in the MacOS / Safari. You might want to think about using a better operating system, Linux or something. Apple isn't really doing much development on MacOS and it is getting pretty outdated.

 

[danb35]

Apple isn't really doing much development on MacOS and it is getting pretty outdated.

Oh, horsesh*t. Maybe there's a bug in Safari and maybe there isn't (two consecutive attempts failed for me, but Firefox also failed, so it may not have anything to do with Safari), but this is just a nonsensical response.

 

[Chris Moore]

Oh, horsesh*t. Maybe there's a bug in Safari and maybe there isn't (two consecutive attempts failed for me, but Firefox also failed, so it may not have anything to do with Safari), but this is just a nonsensical response.

Just going by what I have read.

 

[Mlovelace]

That sounds like a bug in the MacOS / Safari. You might want to think about using a better operating system, Linux or something. Apple isn't really doing much development on MacOS and it is getting pretty outdated.

Chris, you're going to start an OS war...

Apple is very much developing macOS, they're trying as hard as possible to turn it into iOS. ;)

 

[Chris Moore]

Chris, you're going to start an OS war...

Apple is very much developing macOS, they're trying as hard as possible to turn it into iOS. ;)

Just to be fair about it. I hate Windows too.

 

[garm]

The new CDN is a likelier culprit then Apples supposed lack of MacOS development.. works fine for me..

 

[danb35]

The new CDN is a likelier culprit

I'd agree--it's basic troubleshooting. If something stops working, look at what recently changed. Here, that's the CDN.

 

[sretalla]

It works just fine for me, first time I got 600.4MB. As has been suggested already, the CDN wherever you are may be the problem... but that wouldn't be a great explanation of why Chrome is fine and Safari not.

Anyway, Safari worked for me, I'm on macOS 10.14.5 Beta (18F118d), so maybe that's a difference?

 

[blanchet]

You can continue getting a partially-downloaded file with wget -c

wget -c https://download.freenas.org/11.2/STABLE/U3/x64/FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso
If the download does not complete, repeat again the command, the download resumes exactly where it stops.

Then check the image image signature with

• On FreeBSD: sha256 FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso
• On Linux: sha256sum FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso

GNU wget is included with FreeNAS.

 

[Chris Moore]

You can continue getting a partially-downloaded file with wget -c

I tried it and this was the result:

Code:

wget -c https://download.freenas.org/11.2/STABLE/U3/x64/FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso

--2019-04-29 06:44:58--  https://download.freenas.org/11.2/STABLE/U3/x64/FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso
Resolving download.freenas.org (download.freenas.org)... 68.70.205.2, 68.70.205.3, 68.70.205.4, ...
Connecting to download.freenas.org (download.freenas.org)|68.70.205.2|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 600387584 (573M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso’

FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso                          100%[==============================================================================================>] 572.57M  9.84MB/s    in 58s

2019-04-29 06:45:57 (9.92 MB/s) - ‘FreeNAS-11.2-U3.iso’ saved [600387584/600387584]

That makes it appear as if the file is only 572.57 MB so I am confused about the preceding statements:

It works just fine for me, first time I got 600.4MB.

Are we talking about different files?

 

[sretalla]

Are we talking about different files?

That’s what Safari reported during the download and the file in Finder appears as that size.

 

[danb35]

I believe Safari (and macOS in general) use actual KB/MB/GB rather than KiB/MiB/GiB--this could account for the apparent difference.

 

[seanm]

Length: 600387584 (573M) [application/octet-stream]

600387584 / 1024 / 1024 ≅ 572.6

That makes it appear as if the file is only 572.57 MB so I am confused about the preceding statements:

You mean MiB. macOS is pretty consistent in correctly using MB to mean megabyte (base 10).