[TriLUG] Best place for SPARC ISOs

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 17:35, M. Mueller wrote:
> 
> >
> > > ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu
> 
> Can anyone help me understand why I keep getting failures on downloading an 
> ISO?  I have DSL.  I've tried multiple machines.  I've tried initiating the 
> download with browser and ftp.  I've tried multiple sites.  The site above 
> will let me get between 450 and 510 Mb before stopping.  Up to that point the 
> downloading is quite brisk.  I think I'm on failure no. 8 now.  Any help 
> would be appreciated.
> 

If the site supports it, you might consider using rsync.  Rsync 
will only download the portions of the file you don't have so
that if it fails in the middle you won't have to start all over
again.

Tanner
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