Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
On Monday 17 November 2003 07:16 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:03 pm, a large portion of the List wrote: > > > > Thanks to all who replied - guess I'll try gftp or something like that. > > Although, I think I will try Konq (just out of curiosity) to see if it does > better than Mozilla on large d/l's. > > Thanks again to everyone! :-) Ron, I use Konqueror all the time for this, and it works quite well. It will even resume if a server is resumable. Sometimes on smaller rpms and files I will split the screen left and right and then click home on the right screen, navigate to where I want to save the rpm etc and just drag and drop the file to my directory from the web site. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 17 November 2003 6:16 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:03 pm, a large portion of the List wrote: > > > > Thanks to all who replied - guess I'll try gftp or something like that. > > Although, I think I will try Konq (just out of curiosity) to see if it does > better than Mozilla on large d/l's. > > Thanks again to everyone! :-) GFTP is still a G.U.I. tool so it ain't all that different. C'mon Ronald, command line tools rock to the Nth degree you know. Try rsync, I dare ya. Using a *browser* _still_? For downloading 650 and 700 MB files? Chicken! Have fun Dark Lord. (-; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 08:32:22 up 14:30, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. -- Raymond Chandler -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uOtRG11CaRuZZSIRAgAIAJ9/qeSrFbABVDVgwTz0XZGjYNjCFQCfZ2j0 bmw7XlFtzqMQypG5+UCR8Qo= =L9Re -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:03 pm, a large portion of the List wrote: Thanks to all who replied - guess I'll try gftp or something like that. Although, I think I will try Konq (just out of curiosity) to see if it does better than Mozilla on large d/l's. Thanks again to everyone! :-) -- /\ Dark>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
Try Konquerer, it does large files just fine and even resumes a failed download. Just a thought Russ Jason Greenwood wrote: I HIGHLY suggest you use gFTP or another ftp client instead of Mozilla. Browsers were never designed to download large files Cheers Jason Sharrea Day wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 16 November 2003 2:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the > 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work > right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download > dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got > broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per > ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 > percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, > its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though > Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. > > I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Yeah, I'd try gftp or one of the other ftp apps called from a terminal in the directory you want the download in. For example: gftp ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/Mandrake/iso starts the download but the message from the server is that there are too many anonymous users for the transaction to complete at this time. Try a different server. Such as one of the European ones where people are likely asleep at the moment. Or if you already have an old set of ISOs from a previous version rename them to reflect the new release name and use rsync in a terminal to "download the differences" which is the method I generally use. Or just use rsync to download them instead of an ftp front end app. If you do have the ISOs and have renamed them add --delete before the --progress flag. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nanook]$rsync -avrt --progress ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ /downloads/torrent/ All spaces are single. Of course change the source mirror and destination directory to suit you, but I know for a fact the download is fairly fast from the server in the example. Reading the rsync man page or rsync --help wouldn't hurt either. (-; HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:07:47 up 2:00, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.08 "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm having all my plants neutered." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/t/hrG11CaRuZZSIRApOZAJ9wzSGhElIyz7bxN4ZfvdbjLwsAFwCeIXJ4 ZZSwTSPzpP98oE2tnDJ1cQA= =HN7z -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
I HIGHLY suggest you use gFTP or another ftp client instead of Mozilla. Browsers were never designed to download large files Cheers Jason Sharrea Day wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
> Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 > ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll I had a different type of issue with mozilla, but I would go to the ftp site directly with ncftp. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading ISO problem
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download > the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work > right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the > download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've > got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 > mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box > shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the > ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even > though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. > > I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. Sorry, don't know much 'bout downloading with mozilla which I don't have much luck with anyway, but... >From what I've heard, using a browser to download large files is not a good idea. Use and ftp client or a downloader app like d4x. Personally I use d4x (Downloader for X) which I've never had a problem with and supports resuming downloads. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Downloading ISO problem
Hey guys - I've got something strange going on. I'm trying to download the 9.2 ISOs from the US/Indiana mirror, and I can't quite get it to work right. I'll start the download with Mozilla, check the box for the download dialog box to stay open after downloading, then let it run. I've got broadband, and am getting about 216k/s download speeds (roughly 55 mins per ISO). However, what happens is that Mozilla downloads, the box shows 100 percent, progress bar all the way over, but when I check the ISO itself, its like 270 megs one time, then 384 megs the next time. Even though Mozilla says its 100 percent downloaded. I've never had this happen before - any ideas? Thanks. -- /\ Dark>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
