On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
> Well, on Y2K-1 last night I tried an full instalation, from snow storm
> reason my ftp feed stoped when just only 5% or so of the packages was
> remaining to download.
> The machine was rebooted gracefully with ctrl-alt-del.
> So is any chance to recover the instalation or do I have to ftp again
> 700MB over a slow link.
Simplest is to use wget -c (man wget).
Better still is to use mirror (/usr/doc/mirror).
Best is to use rsync (man rsync). See other postings here.
For both mirror and rsync you must first synchronise your ftp-downloaded file
timestamps to those on the server using mirror -T ...
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
