On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 15:08, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-10 13:14:16 -0500]: > > A tangent on this - having heard of Knoppix's good reputation, I've > > When it works it works great. Sometimes it does not work. In that > case, well when it works it works great! :-) > > > tried to get an iso of this from a few sources, and using all manner of > > different sources and transfer methods and tools, I get a certain > > distance along, and then it stops, and will not continue. How far I get > > depends on the iso, but it stops at the same spot on all systems and > > methods. I haven't seen any reasons in logs or networking manuals, but > > this is frustrating - I'm burning bandwidth of many not-for-profit > > servers with no success, and not reaching 20% of the iso as a rule. > > I can't suggest any reason your download would drop in the middle. > > But I can suggest to use a download method that will restart where it > left off. I suggest wget right off of the top of my head. Look at > the 'wget -c' option. Other programs also support restarting. This > way if your download drops you can at least restart it and keep making > further progress. > > Bob
That is what I've been doing, but not a single additional data byte ever comes, with wget or ftp reget or whatever else. While I've had this problem with http transfers in the past on some large files (multi-megabytes usually) from *certain* websites, only the Knoppix ISOs have been a problem on Debian (although the Red Hat ISOs I tried to get for a client on his Windows XP system also had this problem - she was insistent that she wanted Red Hat, and knew I'd charge her less for my consulting time if I could do the download on her office bandwidth.) It is frustrating, and the main reason I want it is not for my machines, but for a friend to have a non-destructive way to try Linux on his XP box before he adds a second drive and has space to install a proper o/s (which I know he'll have me look after - installing the drive and then Linux - I'll probably even be administering the system for him over ssh after that.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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