Small Download

Lynmuel Uy lynmuel at gawab.com
Wed Feb 20 13:51:34 UTC 2008


Im actually still using XP and behind office firewall, so I can't use any
download manager. I was wondering if anybody here knows about archived copy
of the ISO file.

Thanks again,


Alexandra Zaharia <f0rg3r at gmail.com> wrote on 20 Feb 2008, 02:48 PM:
Subject: Re: Small Download
>On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Lynmuel Uy <lynmuel at gawab.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anybody here know where I can download Ubuntu ISO archived into
>small files. Im having difficulty in downloading the 700MB file.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>
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