Small Download

[Tiemen Ruiten]

Lynmuel Uy wrote:
> 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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wget is not a download manager, it's a utility to download files with 
the  http or ftp protocol. I think it's safe to assume traffic on port 
80 is not blocked ;) I suggest you try Alexandra's solution.