How to download DVD images
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 5 09:45:22 UTC 2004
Botond Kardos wrote:
> Hi,
> can you propose a program to download DVD images with? (FC3 is coming.
> :> ) Something which can handle huge files (unlike mget) and can resume
> after disconnects (unlike wget)?
I would strongly recommend using bittorrent to download the DVD ISO. It's
likely to be faster than a download from a single site, checksums each 1MB
chunk as it downloads it (redownloaing if necessary) and has no problems
resuming a download after a disconnect.
If you really need to use a mirror, curl will handle large files. The latest
FC2 errata version of wget is also supposed to be able to handle large files.
Paul.
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