<quote who="James Gregory"> > On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 10:47, Ken Foskey wrote: > > My download of knoppix stopped at 602 Meg of 700Meg, is there a method > > that I can use to restart the download? > > Is this just a download of an iso? If so, wget -c is always good. > > The only time I've had it fail was when my download stopped thanks to a > kernel panic cos I decided it was a good time to see if the drives in my > laptop were as hotswappable as advertised. Needless to say, they were > not. >
This sort of thing usually just means that the last few meg got corrupted, so a good trick I've used to effect is to rename the corrupted file and then use dd to copy something like all-but-the-last-20meg to a new file with the original name and then restart the download to that. mv knoppix.iso knoppix-old.iso dd if=knoppix-old.iso of=knoppix.iso bs=10M count=58 wget -c http://.... J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
