Unable to download Quirky 008 from Ibiblio
Unable to download Quirky 008 from Ibiblio
I have just spent four hours trying to download quirky 008 from Ibiblio with no success. What is the point of uploading to a site which can't provide the download within a reasonable time? Is there no alternative?
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Try using Opera browser (which can continue interrupted downloads), or time your download for midnight or early morning in the US (that makes the site less busy).
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Hello 3133
Freakin hell
Well i just went there and downloaded it (via wget) in just under 14 minutes.
I did notice that the download speed was bouncing up & down like a jack in the box,
going anywhere from between 10K/s and 755K/s (averaging 125.13 KB/s)
All i can suggest is, if you are in Puppy use wget to download it,
if you go into the directory to which you want to download to, then open a terminal there (Right click > Window > Terminal Here)
and enter the following command:
that should do the trick.
Then if for any reason you get cut off, re-run that command from the same directory
and wget will pick up where it left off.
Don't forget to check the md5sum when the download has finished,
in the same terminal window you have open, enter the following command:
You should get this:
Hope that helps
CatDude
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Four Hours !3133 wrote:I have just spent four hours trying to download quirky 008 from obiblio with no success. What is the point of uploading to a site which can't provide the download within a reasonable time? Is there no alternative?
Freakin hell
Well i just went there and downloaded it (via wget) in just under 14 minutes.
I did notice that the download speed was bouncing up & down like a jack in the box,
going anywhere from between 10K/s and 755K/s (averaging 125.13 KB/s)
All i can suggest is, if you are in Puppy use wget to download it,
if you go into the directory to which you want to download to, then open a terminal there (Right click > Window > Terminal Here)
and enter the following command:
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wget -c ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-008/quirky-008.iso
Then if for any reason you get cut off, re-run that command from the same directory
and wget will pick up where it left off.
Don't forget to check the md5sum when the download has finished,
in the same terminal window you have open, enter the following command:
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md5sum quirky-008.iso
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# md5sum quirky-008.iso
95051cc04b3204e2650a60de01e094b9 quirky-008.iso
#
CatDude
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ibiblio
Thanks for all your suggestions, folks. Tried ibiblio once again last night and left the machine running. Wget cycled through the six addresses as they timed out one after the other, finally giving up after five and a half hours.
Upnorth: I had been looking in in the wrong place in nluug (under puppylinux) not realising that quirky had a separate entry. I collared the download in a shade over two minutes.
Thanks again.
Upnorth: I had been looking in in the wrong place in nluug (under puppylinux) not realising that quirky had a separate entry. I collared the download in a shade over two minutes.
Thanks again.
Puppy User since Ver 0.4