David G. Miller wrote: ... > On the other hand, here are two links that point to the RH9 vintage of > wget being the problem (2GB limit): ... The trick using ftp to continue the transfer (if you can find FC2 on an ftp site) seems to work: # wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.crc.dk/pub/mirrors/fedora/iso/5/i386/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso --07:39:22-- ftp://ftp.crc.dk/pub/mirrors/fedora/iso/5/i386/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso => `FC-5-i386-DVD.iso' Resolving ftp.crc.dk... done. Connecting to ftp.crc.dk[130.226.184.8]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/mirrors/fedora/iso/5/i386 ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR FC-5-i386-DVD.iso ... done. Length: -1,041,297,408 (unauthoritative) [ <=> ] 2,145,295,120 10.76M/s F ile size limit exceeded # ftp ftp.crc.dk Connected to ftp.crc.dk (130.226.184.8). 220 (vsFTPd 1.2.1) Name (ftp.crc.dk:root): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd /pub/mirrors/fedora/iso/5/i386/ 250 Directory successfully changed. ftp> reget FC-5-i386-DVD.iso local: FC-5-i386-DVD.iso remote: FC-5-i386-DVD.iso 227 Entering Passive Mode (130,226,184,8,186,71) 350 Restart position accepted (2147483647). 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for FC-5-i386-DVD.iso (3253669888 bytes). 226 File send OK. 1106186241 bytes received in 99.7 secs (1.1e+04 Kbytes/sec) ftp> 221 Goodbye. # sha1sum FC-5-i386-DVD.iso ed9a852cf77250c3ae111c621d350af5c0b0a29b FC-5-i386-DVD.iso Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk