limitations of fedorapeople.org

[Kalpa Welivitigoda]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Kalpa Welivitigoda
<callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:17 AM, suvayu ali
> <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 19:38, Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 22:12 +0530, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:48 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:19, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
>>>>> > <callkalpa at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>> >> I want to download F16 and currently my internet connection doesn't
>>>>> >> allow to download large files. The maximum allowable size is 50MB a
>>>>> >> file.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Even if you manage to download the iso, how will you update it? There
>>>>> > are several packages larger than 50 MB. Anyway, if updating works you
>>>>> > can try the netinstall image to install over the network.
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't get you clearly. But I guess you are thinking that I'll
>>>>> download the individual packages. Nope I'm not doing it that way. I
>>>>> want to download the iso, one file and want it split to small files.
>>>>
>>>> Could you try an http install so only have to download a
>>>> netinstall.iso/boot.iso and let it download/install over the internet?
>>>> That takes care of one box until get hands on an iso or dvd or something
>>>
>>> well I thought to do a fresh install. This won't do that I hope.
>>
>> My question was, even if you manage to install F16 on a machine the 50
>> MB download limit might block some updates. Although most package
>> updates are small some like libreoffice-core can be substantially
>> large. If from past experience you know this will not be a problem,
>> then my proposal was to do a netinstall.
>>
>> However I just checked, even the netinstall image is 270 MB so you are
>> out of luck.
>>
>
> I hope that I'll be able to do it with curl that Frank pointed out.
> Waiting for tomorrow to see my luck :-)
>

It took me couple of days to check this thing out. Franks method works
fine. Thanks Frank and those others who helped. Someone with the same
issue had a remedy now :-)

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Best Regards,

Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
http://about.me/callkalpa