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| Thread ID: 52081 | 2004-12-09 03:03:00 | Downloading ISO files in chunks. | Caesius (3758) | Press F1 |
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| 301142 | 2004-12-09 03:03:00 | I am still stuck in the stone age when it comes to bandwith and have a 56kbs dial-up connection. I need to download some ISOs but I cannot simply tie up the phone lines for 3 days straight. I can only go online at night from ~11pm - 6am. Do you know of any (FTP) programs that won't get upset at having to stop and resume a download? This is the first time I've ever tried to download ISOs, I want to stop being a slave to LinuxShop or Fishpond or whatever... I'm running FreeBSD but any Linux program you can suggest should work. Cheers, Ben. |
Caesius (3758) | ||
| 301143 | 2004-12-09 03:06:00 | Get something like getright or gozilla etc so u can resume. BUT this would also depend on whether the site/ftp you're getting ISO's from resumes file transfers. Not all do. | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 301144 | 2004-12-09 03:26:00 | There's a plugin for Mozilla Firefox on this page (update.mozilla.org) that is cross platform and ftp friendly, so should do the trick for you. Not sure if there's a similar plugin for Mozilla or other browsers but, it wouldn't surprise me if there were. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 301145 | 2004-12-09 03:30:00 | I was under the impression it wouldn't be suitable, but I shoulda just scrolled one down to Flashgot 0.5.4 which certainly works in FreeBSD acording to the blurb. You'll need to install a download manager as well though. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 301146 | 2004-12-09 03:45:00 | Have a look at Downloader for X (dx4) - here (www.krasu.ru). You can get the source and compile it yourself, or google around for a suitable BSD build. | Jen C (20) | ||
| 301147 | 2004-12-09 04:17:00 | Leech get is supposed to do this I havent tested it''s resuming but it does have a feature that states weather different sites do or dont support resuming. Unfortunatly Leechget seems to be IE only ware. Gozilla is spywareloaded to the hilt and will leave a lot of spy related junk around. (IMHO) Please keep us updated on your progress with this as many would probably like to sucessfullf dowload ISO in segments. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 301148 | 2004-12-09 04:26:00 | I've used both Getright and Leechget to resume ISO downloads. There's a plugin for Leechget to get it going with the *cough* better browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, Opera IIRC). | Murray P (44) | ||
| 301149 | 2004-12-09 04:29:00 | > I've used both Getright and Leechget to resume ISO > downloads. Hmm ... aren't these both Doze only apps? Caesius is runnnig FreeBSD. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 301150 | 2004-12-09 04:33:00 | The plugin for Firefox enables you to use both and it says it's cross platform . Haven't used them myself in Linux, so can't verify it Jen . If you notice on the Mozilla Extensions pages you can filter for various OS's including BSD . Cool eh! :) |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 301151 | 2004-12-09 04:50:00 | > The plugin for Firefox enables you to use both and it > says it's cross platform. Haven't used them myself in > Linux, so can't verify it Jen. > > If you notice on the Mozilla Extensions pages you can > filter for various OS's including BSD. Cool eh! :) Trying not to be pendatic here Murray :p, but is that extension plugin which is multi-platform called Flashgot (www.flashgot.net), because it still requires a external download manager - it gives for BSD a suggestion of dx4 or Aria, because Flashget, Leechget or Getright only run on Windows. Or you were meaning that Fireftp (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/) plugin which is for ftp only, but is cross-platform? :) suspects I am a tad confused here ... :p |
Jen C (20) | ||
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