> > Message: 16 > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:05:29 +0100 > From: John Austin <ja@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: downloading large files > To: Fedora Core List <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1120917929.18459.20.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 15:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 09.07.2005, 00:07 -0500 schrieb Kenny Gow: > > > Bob Hartung wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to download a 2+ Gb file via ftp, but my client seems to > > > > corrupt the large download. I cannot remember the program to use to get > > > > around this limitation. Could someone please enlighten me? > > > > > > I think wget from the command line ought to do it. > > > > No, not for files > 2 GB. See the Release Notes: > > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/#sn-anaconda > > > > > > > > --Kenny > > > > > > > Christoph > > > Hi > A straight forward FC3 ftp will download up to 2.8 ish GB > as I used it to get a FC4 dvd iso image ! ncftp works well too. I used it to get the FC4 DVD iso. It has the advantage of being able to resume downloads if necessary. I even used this feature to get the rest of the dvd iso after wget spat the dummy at ~2.1Gb ! I didn't want to have to download that first 2Gb again ;-) Andrew
