How to download DVD images

[Alexander Apprich]

Botond Kardos wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:45, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> 	Will bittorrent work behind a firewall and a proxy? The FAQ
> (http://dessent.net/btfaq/) says that "desproxy" can do some tricks for
> me, but it doesn't says how.
> 

Hmmm, no problems here, but that doesn't mean a thing :-) If firewall
and proxy is an issue, and you are able to use ftp, why don't you use
ncftpget? I have downloaded the DVD-ISO of FC2_x86_64 w/no probs.

Alex