A tip for ppl who download big iso files like fedora iso's

[VJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serge de Souza" <serge at cs.curtin.edu.au>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: A tip for ppl who download big iso files like fedora iso's


> VJ wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I just wanted to share this with users of Fedora. I downloaded Fedora
>> Core 3 DVD using FTP, cos I was getting 180kbytes per second from
>> ftp.esat.net (in Dublin/Ireland), and lot less than that by bittorrent. I
>> downloaded that file in a little more than 3 and half hours. Now the 
>> problem
>> cropped up when I tried to burn it using Nero. It complained that the 
>> file
>> was not ISO. I checked the md5sum and it was not the same as Fedora's 
>> site
>> says. I did not want to re-download that again. I initiated the process 
>> of
>> bittorrent download for the same iso file but stopped it after some
>> kilobytes were downloaded. then I replaced the partial iso file 
>> downloaded
>> by bit torrent with the full iso file I had (but was corrupt). then I
>> restarted bit-torrent again and automagically it re-downloaded the 
>> portion
>> of the file that was corrupt. That too in just 3 minutes!!! Saved me a 
>> lot
>> of time. I checked the md5sum after that and it matched the one available 
>> on
>> Fedora's site.
>>
>>  You too can do it for the iso's of CD's as well, i guess.
>>
>> Hope it helps somebody.
>>
>> VJ
>>
>
> Which client were you using ?
>
>
> Serge
>
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I used wget to download the first file.

VJ