Download issues

Tommy Reynolds Tommy.Reynolds at MegaCoder.com
Wed Feb 4 21:47:11 UTC 2004


Uttered "Atkins, Brian" <BAtkins at osc.uscg.mil>, spake thus:

> I have been trying to download the Fedora Core 1 i386 iso's both from
> redhat.com and from mirror sites.  No matter how I download them (via the
> http ftp site, using ncftp) or the mode (binary, image, ascii) I cannot get
> the checksums to match.

Don't try to download using a web browser.  You _must_ download in
binary mode.  I suggest using wget(1) since it handles retries and
interrupted transfers quite nicely.  Something like this:

$ wget -c <paste-url-here>

should make your life much happier.
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