My suggestion is to use Torrents, which will resolve all your issues plus it will immensely help the community by sharing the file.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, NARENDRA DIWATE <narendra.diw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi > > I use wget to download Linux ISO's and similar large files, but often find > them to fail on hash check. This could be because the download happens in > multiple attempts either due to net failure or power failure (UPS has conked > sometime back). Wget fails to correct the hash fail downloads and insists > that the download is complete. > > The strategy that i use to correct these hash fail downloads is to use > torrents to download the broken pieces where available. trouble is not all > are also available as torrent downloads and i cant download a fresh copy as > i have a limited data plan net connection. So i would request the learned > here to advice on a few Q's: > > 1. Options on Wget that will correct any incomplete downloads. > > 2. What other options are available to correct a hash failed download that > will be data efficient in that it will only download the corrupt or > incomplete pieces. > > 3. What options are available if the server does not support resume > downloads. > > 4. Also i have seen quite a few links on the ubuntu download mirrors that i > dont understand. e.g. .jigdo, .link, .metalink, .template etc. How do we use > them. > > Regards > > Narendra Diwate > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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