Re: Fedora Download limits with Windows??

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 21:25:14 GMT

On Sat, 22 May 2004 00:57:43 +0000, Al Franz wrote:

> Having problems downloading Fedora from the Redhat site or Mirror sites.
>
> My WinXP system with IE has always had problems with downloading large
> files in HTTP or FTP, believe it is a windows limitation. So I tried to
> logon to an FTP site with an FTP program but none of the mirrors seem to
> work, I can not see a list of files in the FTP program. What user name
> and password is required for these open sites? I tried "anonymous" but
> get the errors... "Address lookup of
> "ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/" failed. It may
> be misspelled, or your computer may not be connected to the network or
> Internet. Also check that your DNS and local name servers are properly
> configured and responding.

First, please do not post messages in HTML, nobody wants to read the same
message twice (the second time with the HTML code added).

In answer to your question it's normal to supply the user name of
'anonymous' and to use your email address as the password. By the way make
sure you download the ISO's in binary, Windows FTP apps have a bad habit
of downloading in ASCII which adds unneeded cartridge returns and line
feeds. And use 'ftp redhat.secsup.org' to start your ftp session;

$ ftp redhat.secsup.org
Trying 208.209.50.18...

Then once your logged on type;

cd /pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/2/i386/iso 

-- 
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we would have been dead a long time ago." M$ Senior VP Bob Muglia '96

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