On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:05:11 +0000 (UTC),
bob prohaska , in
 wrote:

>  Hmm, looks like I'm not getting the entire archive using Chromium. Does
>  raspberrypi.org have an anonymous ftp site somewhere? I tried
>  ftp.raspberrypi.org, but couldn't guess the right username to employ.
>  The traditional "ftp" username was rejected.

This is why you should verify the provided checksum matches. Both the
stretch desktop & lite versions provide SHA-256 sums. Fire up ye olde
shell, and

sha256sum whatever.zip
*a ridiculously long hex value*

such as (stretch desktop):
d6d64a8bfad37de6bc7d975a335c69b8c6164a33b1ef0c79c888a9b83db5063f

Not seeing mirrors for the image zip file, tho.

http://distrowatch.org/?newsid=10143 has links, signatures,
SHA-256 sum files and such. You may be well served with a torrent
download.

I'm on a fast network, and chrome told me it would take around 2 hours
to download successfully. That maybe why you're having
problems. The network download could be timing out.

Ah...when I fire up a terminal and fetch the image with wget, the
speed improves greatly: under 3 minutes, estimated.

wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest

Alternatively, you can also use curl. Yep, wget worked almost
perfectly and in a timely fashion. Well, the SHA-256 sum matched. The
only draw back is that it downloaded a file raspbian_latest. It is a
.zip file, but the extension was not part of the name. Not sure what
caused that, could be operator error.

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