On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:12, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:52, david wrote: > > > thats the trouble i was at root when the download started and i cannt > > find any files, by name, by size anywhere from root on down > > got me > > its downloading from ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/??????? > > so it should of created a folder called mirror.pacific.net.au > > would this be correct? > > but its still not there either. > > it still downloading madly, i just hope its saving them somewhere > > its actually all the files to make and iso from > > havent found a repository for 64bit man 10.1 > > thanks > > Not to sound like a smartass, but: > > # pwd > > should tell you what directory your files are in. Unless you specifically > gave wget a destination folder to put files into, it should download them > into your current working directory. It would not have created a folder > called mirror.pacific.net.au or whatever; it would have just put the files > into the directory you're currently in. When I used wget earlier today to > get the gpg keys for the kde-redhat repository, the file was placed in my > current working directory, no subdirectories created or anything like that. > > -- > Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx) > AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com > "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." > -Mark Twain yes well mmmm pwd reveals /root is there a way of accessing this folder from a user or do i have to go into root login to get there and have a look im still downloading and it seems to be happy i gave the command: root]#wget -m URL???? so thats where they are thanks david
