twanj Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 wget is fine for sure, and aria2 is even better... CLI syntax is even simpler than wget: aria2c ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrivalinux/official/iso/2007.1/mandriva-linux-2007-spring-free-dvd-i586.iso This thing will automatically set download mirrors, and (if you use a metalink) will use both normal http/ftp and p2p to get the file for you. I use aria2 and it works great. If you use a metalink, aria2 will also be able to repair a download instead of starting over from scratch. Very nice for large ISO downloads. Mandriva metalinks are at http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#mandriva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 I downloaded from two different mirrors, so it's not that... I used kget to download, next time I'll try wget. If there is a next time ever again... :) I'll try burning to DVD+R(W) and see how that goes. Tomorrow. Kget will probably be the gui version of wget anyway, so you'll be fine with it I'm sure :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted August 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Kget will probably be the gui version of wget anyway, so you'll be fine with it I'm sure :) Yeah, thats what I thought it might be... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janet.doe Posted August 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Hi again! I tried burning to DVD+rw and got just the same result as with -r(w). This dvd works, but md5sum isn't right. Maybe I just stop checking md5sums and save my nerves... :D -jd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Glad it's working. Shame about the md5sum thing though. I've never had any problems with checking the md5sums although required I downloaded the file with the md5sum in from where I downloaded the iso. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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