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. GET(1) GNU Wget WGET(1) NAME Wget - The non-interactive network downloader. SYNOPSIS wget [option]... [URL]... DESCRIPTION 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. ... nuff said, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================