DVD download problem

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Apr 29 07:01:52 UTC 2004


John Hearns wrote:
> Hope this is not too far off-topic.

Sorry, this mailing list is for development only discussion.  You 
described a user support issue.  fedora-list or fedora-test-list would 
be best for your problem.

> 
> I've failed to downlaod the DVD iso twice, using Firefox.
> Once from Duke when I didn't leave enough room in /tmp (argh)
> and cnlab-switch.ch timed out las night.
> 
> I've tried wget several times to the cnlab-switch ftp site.
> Even with --ignore-length (appropriate for http I know)
> it is fetching a 84,785,152 byte long file.
> Ideas please?
> 
> 

bittorrent is usually a good way to download stuff as large as DVD 
images.  It is also very good at resuming transfers.

Warren





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