On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:16:10 -0600, Gerry Tool <gstool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken Barber wrote:
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 10:54 am, John Aldrich wrote:
Are there any other torrents available for downloading FC3? The one at linux.duke.edu doesn't seem to be working for me...
Try combing through the comments on the Slashdot article yesterday (I'm almost done downloading so I haven't looked).
When FC2 was released, that is how I found a decent torrent server.
Ken
You can also just test a few mirrors until you find one that is downloading at a good rate and then switch to an ftp program (like gftp) to download it directly. I found that FoxFire got confused at the end of a very long DVD download and I had to start over. Still, I had the DVD and had finished installing by yesterday evening. Or, perhaps you have a dial-up con
I am having better luck with the Ireland mirrors than anything in my time zone (eastern). I also had trouble with mozilla ff towards the end of a dl. Is gftp faster than a 'normal' download ? worth investigating...
This program worked great for my download of the isos. Why it is not part of the default packages is a mystery to me.
gftp tries again if you get interrupted. It is also capable of resuming from where it left off, if the connection was totally lost from the server.
Jim
