Re: FTP - Download Problem

From: Ohmster (notareal_at_emailaddress.com)
Date: 08/01/05 

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:41:20 GMT

Mike <spamdump@fensoft.co.uk> wrote in
news:42ee0e3a$0$38046$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk:

> Thanks. I'm probably too stuck in my ways and just use FTP without
> considering alternatives. :(
>
> I download large files overnight to avoid tying up machines during the
> day so I'll give "wget" a go tonight and see what happens.

Yeah, wget is the way to go to grab iso files. Easy to use like so:

wget http://someserver.org/pub/fc3/FC3-i386-disc1.iso

If you are grabbing more than one, use a text file with the URL to each
file on a new line, then specify the file to wget:

wget -i download.txt

I used wget to grab my current fedora core 3 distro and it sure did work
out nice. This is what my download.txt file looked like for grabbing
fedora core 3:

http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/fedora-i386/core3-iso/FC3-
i386-disc1.iso
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/fedora-i386/core3-iso/FC3-
i386-disc2.iso
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/fedora-i386/core3-iso/FC3-
i386-disc3.iso
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/fedora-i386/core3-iso/FC3-
i386-disc4.iso

(Each iso file URL is one line, the lines will probably wrap when
posted.)

While wget is doing it's thing, you are free to do other stuff on another
tty or even use the screen command to detach and do other things. wget is
much better than ftp if you know the URL to the files. 

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