On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 13:55 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 13:08 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
> > If you have a link to the image, open a shell, create a working directory, > > cd > > into it and issue: > > 'wget ftp://domain.ext/path/to/image.iso' (no quotes) > > This is actually the problem. The path to the .iso seems to be passed > to the downloader by a java script, hence I couldn't do the down and > easy route. :/ This can be accomplished easily enough in FireFox. What is required is to get the "properties" of the download. I accomplished this by pausing the file transfer, right clicking on it (specifically in my case the dl progress indicator bar), and selecting properties. The top line is the URL-source for the download including file name, which can be copied (according to Carl, I skipped this part) and pasted into a shell script. > > When you need to suspend, say, to shutdown or go offline, 'Ctl+C' (no > > quotes) > > will kill wget. > > > > The next time you're online, open a shell, cd to the same directory and > > issue > > 'wget -c ftp://domain.ext/path/to/image.iso' (no quotes) > > > > The '-c' flag will cause wget to "continue" where it left off. Here's the actual command line: with *** covering Novell user name and password: wget -c --http-user=******** --http-password=******** http://xlfiles.novell.com/prot/N1YveG_t53Y~/SLED-10-x86-DVD1.iso FYI at the time of writing this, I have used this three times to get sections of the overall image, and I now have about 65% of it. > > I'm not understanding the significance of the Activation Code. Is it used > > like > > a password to gain access to the image? If you read "man wget" and/or "wget > > --help" and/or "info wget" you'll see there's a way to pass a username and > > password via commandline so wget can log in, first. > > You don't actually need the activation code to get the file, but you > get the activation code before you get the file. It's required at > install time iirc. > > > hth & regards, > > > > Carl > > Thanks Carl, > > Mike My thanks to Carl for his help on and off the list to sort this out. I've returned this to the list, as it's now a simple way of turning long image downloads, into something more readily manageable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
