Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 13:08 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Monday 20 November 2006 12:47, Martin Mielke top-posted:
> > I find ProZilla faster and much better than wget...
> >
> >     http://prozilla.genesys.ro/
> 
> >   I'd like to get the DVD .iso image of Sled10, problem is the amount of
> > time the dl will take using a standard web browser.  Is there someway
> > that I can the .iso image using wget?  I have my Activation Code
> > already, I really just need an easy method of getting the image in
> > chunks.
> 
> If you have a link to the image, open a shell, create a working directory, cd 
> into it and issue:
> 
> 'wget ftp://domain.ext/path/to/image.iso' (no quotes)

  This is actually the problem.  The path to the .iso seems to be passed
to the downloader by a java script, hence I couldn't do the down and
easy route.  :/

> When you need to suspend, say, to shutdown or go offline, 'Ctl+C' (no quotes) 
> will kill wget.
> 
> The next time you're online, open a shell, cd to the same directory and issue 
> 'wget -c ftp://domain.ext/path/to/image.iso' (no quotes)
> 
> The '-c' flag will cause wget to "continue" where it left off.
> 
> I'm not understanding the significance of the Activation Code. Is it used like 
> a password to gain access to the image? If you read "man wget" and/or "wget 
> --help" and/or "info wget" you'll see there's a way to pass a username and 
> password via commandline so wget can log in, first.

  You don't actually need the activation code to get the file, but you
get the activation code before you get the file.  It's required at
install time iirc.

> hth & regards,
> 
> Carl

  Thanks Carl,

  Mike

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