On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:53 +1100, david wrote: > 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 > > > they are in /root hence any searches couldnt find them > it has created all the file structures and everything is there > mirror.pacific.net.au/????/???/?/????? > ill have to do everything from root now to create the iso > sorry to have stolen your time > thanks for your help > david > Not necessarily. You can do (as root) mv /root/mirror.pacific.net.au /home/youruser then chown -r youruser:yourgroup /home/youruser/mirror.pacific.net.au That will relocate the entire directory tree to your users home directory and give permissions to the user so nothing else requires root privileges (except installs of course). HTH
