How to download DVD images

Botond Kardos Botond.Kardos at essnet.se
Fri Nov 5 10:50:28 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:45, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Botond Kardos wrote:
> > 	Hi,
> > 	can you propose a program to download DVD images with? (FC3 is coming.
> > :> ) Something which can handle huge files (unlike mget) and can resume
> > after disconnects (unlike wget)?
> 
> I would strongly recommend using bittorrent to download the DVD ISO. It's 
> likely to be faster than a download from a single site, checksums each 1MB 
> chunk as it downloads it (redownloaing if necessary) and has no problems 
> resuming a download after a disconnect.
> 

	Will bittorrent work behind a firewall and a proxy? The FAQ
(http://dessent.net/btfaq/) says that "desproxy" can do some tricks for
me, but it doesn't says how.





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