On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:32:54PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:39, Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up > > > connection. > > > > > > I started on 27 January. > > > > That's such a sad story, if you have a hard time fixing the download let me > > know and I'll mail a KNOPPIX cd to you. -Levi > > Thanks for your offer Levi. I have a local Linux supplier but this time I > thought I would experiment with downloading. I had been inpired to do this > on some thread where I was discussing the virtues of Jigdo. > > I believe rightly or wrongly that rsync has the capability of sorting out > which parts of a file are corrupt and then downloading only the necessary > corrections. > > That is what I hope to try next. > > Won't be able to try anything for the next 3 weeks though because I am off > into the bush for that time.
Since you're in .au, try mirror.aarnet.edu.au. They mirror a whole pile of Free stuff, and have rsync access to a bunch of it. Have a look, I bet they do support rsync for knoppix... -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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