lynchmob Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've tried twice. The DVD iso is 3246406 kb but it says 2097 MB (2147328 kb) on my Firefox download manager window. When it gets to the end, it starts counting backwards. Some sites say to use rsync but I not too sure how to go about it. TIA lynchmob [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhat101 Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 What ftp site is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted September 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 I've tried several: ftp.uni-kl.de ftp.kernel.org Those are the two I let the download go all the way through. The others showed the wrong size iso so I cancelled them. lynchmob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhat101 Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 Due to ftp protocals having trouble with over 2 gig files there is a program just for this: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html Info: GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including: Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories NLS-based message files for many different languages Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows Supports HTTP and SOCKS proxies Supports HTTP cookies Supports persistent HTTP connections Unattended / background operation Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring GNU Wget is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted September 21, 2005 Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 I use gftp to download isos (I'm Linux only, but if you are doing this from Windows google ftp clients for Windows). If you are running Linux and don't have it installed just urpmi gftp as root. Don't forget to check the md5sums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynchmob Posted September 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 Thanks. Wget worked. I had forgotten all about that. I'm Linux only, but if you are doing this from Windows google ftp clients for Windows I never use M$. Just have been downloading CD isos, not DVD isos and was'nt aware of the ftp file size limitations at some mirror sites. I've been using Linux (mainly MDK/ 'driva) for about 6 years now. This is a nice site that I've lurked in anon' from time to time. Answered some Qs for me too. :) Thought it was about time to register. Who knows, maybe I can answer a Q or 2 somtime. :D lynchmob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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