Background task to download FC14 isos

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 09:10:11 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 11/12/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > So I tried:
>>> >
>>> > wget -b -nv -r -l1 --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=6 -A "disc?.iso"
>>> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/
>>> >
>>> > and this only got the index.txt file
>>> >
>>> > So I am trying to figure out the right format for the -A option...
>>>
>>> Instead of the -A option of wget, you could use the power of the shell:
>>>
>>> wget -b -nv -nH
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/disc{1..5}.iso<http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/disc%7B1..5%7D.iso>
>>>
>>> (Untested!)
>>>
>>> Andras
>>>
>>>
>> Your scripts will work! Neither you nor the OP bothered to examine the
>> contents of the repository. All the ISO files begin with "Fedora".
>>
>> Try:
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>> wget ftp:///
>> mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-14-i386-disc*.iso
>>
>> or
>>
>> wget ftp:///
>> mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-14-i386*.iso
>>
>> which will get disc1-disc5, DVD and netinstall.
>>
>>
>>
> Sorry, cut and paste error. The correct commands should be:
>
>
> wget ftp://
> mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-14-i386-disc*.iso
>
> and
>
>
> wget ftp://
> mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-14-i386*.iso
>
>
Some one is bound to point out that the last command can be shortened to

wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/*.iso<http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-14-i386*.iso>

if one wants to suck up any and all ISO files in the directory.
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