Re: download problems...

[James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Hashem Masoud wrote:

> Hello....
>
> I live in the persian gulf and when I download the
> latest kernel, I either get disconnected or the
> download becomes real slow. And when I managed to
> download 2.4.1 (which was bz2 format), It turned out
> to be corrupted and cannot be unzipped...
>
> any suggestions on how to get kernels in this area of
> the world?

"rsync" would be one option: this will download only the differences
between your copy of the kernel and the one on kernel.org. Alternatively,
wget can resume downloads, as can ftp with the "reget" command.

Also, do use a local mirror (or as local as possible)!

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