Restart F-13 download?

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>    I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from
>>    http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all  and a thunderstorm came
>>    along and blocked my path to the satellite. A message popped up
>>    indicating the download was finished. Of course it should be 3.1 gigs!
>>
>>    Is there any way to get that download restarted? When I start over
>>    it does exactly that and starts downloading 3.1 gb again. My
>>    bandwidth is limited and I hate to waste it! I suspect there is no
>>    way to recover but I'm asking to be sure.
>>
>>    Bob
>>
> One of the advantages of using a torrent.  It gets checked for completeness
> every time you restart the torrent client, so even on a noisy telco line, it
> will eventually get you a good copy.  Torrents check the file 64k by 64k,
> and if the 64k's checksum fails, it goes and gets it again.  The problem for
> folks on a sat link is the turn around time, so it may not ever achieve top
> speed.  But it _will_ eventually get it, one 64k piece at a time if it has
> to, but only if that block is missing or bad.
>

Open a terminal. cd to the directory where the partial file is stored
and run "wget -c
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso".
 Run a checksum on the resultant file to be sure nothing got
corrupted.