Re: download problems...

[Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:01:35PM -0700, Hashem Masoud wrote:
> 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?

Take a kernel.org mirror close to you and download from that one. If
you still happen to be at the wrong side of a slow link, use GNU wget
to do a "continue mode" get:

  wget URL
   ... (network connection times out)
  wget -c URL

You can get wget from any GNU mirror (or just install the package, of
course).


Erik

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