Small Download

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Lynmuel Uy <lynmuel at gawab.com> wrote:
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> Does anybody here know where I can download Ubuntu ISO archived into small files. Im having difficulty in downloading the 700MB file.
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> Thanks,
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> Ltuy


Hello,

I assume you're having troubles to download the 700 MB iso because of
your connection which might be slow and the download might "break".

You won't get a chance to get parts of an iso, but here's an
alternative for you:

* first you need to find a mirror close to your geographical location;
find your mirror from the list here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors

* then pick up the release you need (the iso for your architecture,
the desktop or server edition, the live or the alternate install CD
etc.)

* if you're using Windows: get the wget utility from here:
http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin-1_5_3_1-binary.zip - save it
for instance on your desktop ; next, unzip it. (I'll assume you've got
the file wget.exe on your desktop for this example)

-- Note -- If you're already using Linux you would of course already
have wget on your system so you wouldn't need to get it and unpack it.

* Start -> Run... -> cmd

>From the command prompt, navigate to your desktop:

cd C:\Documents and Settings\YourUsernameHere\Desktop
wget.exe --tries=0 "theurlwiththeisofileyouneedtoget"

For instance - depending on your mirror and on the Ubuntu realease you
need - you'd issue something like:

wget.exe --tries=0
"http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ubuntulinux.org/releases/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso"

What the "--tries=0" switch does is basically reconnect "0 times" (as
in: forever) if the connection failed.

Good luck!