On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from >> http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all and a thunderstorm came >> along and blocked my path to the satellite. A message popped up >> indicating the download was finished. Of course it should be 3.1 gigs! >> >> Is there any way to get that download restarted? When I start over >> it does exactly that and starts downloading 3.1 gb again. My >> bandwidth is limited and I hate to waste it! I suspect there is no >> way to recover but I'm asking to be sure. >> >> Bob >> > One of the advantages of using a torrent. It gets checked for completeness > every time you restart the torrent client, so even on a noisy telco line, it > will eventually get you a good copy. Torrents check the file 64k by 64k, > and if the 64k's checksum fails, it goes and gets it again. The problem for > folks on a sat link is the turn around time, so it may not ever achieve top > speed. But it _will_ eventually get it, one 64k piece at a time if it has > to, but only if that block is missing or bad. > Open a terminal. cd to the directory where the partial file is stored and run "wget -c ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso";. Run a checksum on the resultant file to be sure nothing got corrupted. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
