Johan Kohler <kohlerj <at> ukzn.ac.za> writes: > > I'm trying to d/l a dvd image via ftp. It was going quite well yesterday > The lenght is reported as negative presumably because of the large size > 3.4 Gb. Is it the negative size that caused the resume to fail? > > me <at> mymachine:~$ wget -c > ftp://ftp.ukc.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/kubuntu/ releases/6.06/release/kubuntu-6.06-dvd-i386.iso > --02:22:04-- > ftp://ftp.ukc.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/kubuntu/ releases/6.06/release/kubuntu-6.06-dvd-i386.iso > => `kubuntu-6.06-dvd-i386.iso' > Resolving ftp.ukc.mirrorservice.org... 212.219.56.134, 212.219.56.132, > 212.219.56.133 > Connecting to ftp.ukc.mirrorservice.org[212.219.56.134]:21... connected. > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD > /sites/cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/kubuntu/releases/6.06/release ... done. > ==> SIZE kubuntu-6.06-dvd-i386.iso ... done. > ==> PASV ... done. ==> REST -637825024 ... > REST failed, starting from scratch. > ==> RETR kubuntu-6.06-dvd-i386.iso ... done. > Length: -637,825,024 (unauthoritative) > .. >
Works fine here with wget 1.10.2 on a Linux system. Perhaps you have a wget version without "large file support" compiled in? On what system are you doing this and where does the wget binary come from? Regards, J.Roderburg
