On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 11:22 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I decided to get the F7 live CD .iso file and use wget. I did the > first part using my web browser and I found a source for this file in > CA which is as close as possible. I had to find a source that uses > FTP. As the man pages say wget will only work with a FTP source. Incorrect, it also works with HTTP, and the man file says so, right in the first paragraph: "GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies." Secondly, don't waste scads of some servers bandwidth downloading a huge ISO file just to test resuming. You only need to do a small test to see that resuming does something (pick a smaller file, or don't download the whole ISO). When you restart the download, you'll see it either picking up part way through, or starting again downloading a second file (with a slightly different name than the first, so it doesn't overwrite it), if it can't resume. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
