[ILUG] how not to download a DVD ISO image, a step-by-step guide

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:15:52 +0000
  | From: Cian Davis <davisc at skynet.ie>
  | 
  | Conor Wynne wrote:
  | > I always use curl [ ... ]
  | > It has resume features, and seems to always work, even over https.
  | 
  | You need a version of curl that supports 4GB files - I can't remember
  | which version is the one you need. Same with wget - it does support it,
  | but you need to have a new version.
  | 
  | (In fairness, I was reasonably sure that both have supported large files
  | for quite a while now)

 I've never (knowingly) used curl(1) since wget(1) has
 normally worked fine for me.  thanks, I'll try to
 remember that option for next time.  this was, I think,
 the first time ‘wget’ failed for a reason that was clearly
 ‘wget’s fault.  (as it happens, despite the flakiness of
 browser downloads in general — one reason I usually use
 ‘wget’ —  using FireFox (1.5) worked fine.)

 I presume recent ‘wget’ et al. versions have largefile
 support.  this was using the ‘wget’ that shipped with
 SUSE 9.1 (“GNU Wget 1.9.1”), which is a clew _why_ I
 was trying to download a more modern distro .... .

 very annoyingly, I made two coasters; three, if you count
 the initial size-borked version; or four, if you count
 the final one, when I switched to DVD+RW media after
 watching my stockpile of blank DVD-R's dwindle to the
 red line level.†

 the second time on the DVD+RW was the charm.  I'm not
 quite sure what the problem was, possibly the automounter,
 which was enabled for all the coasters.

cheers!
	-blf-

 †  I've a firm rule to NEVER use the last few recordable
    media for anything but CRITICAL recordings (backups),
    to allow for a certain amount of coastering whilst,
    hopefully, still having the media on which to record
    the critical backup.

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