[ILUG] how not to download a DVD ISO image, a step-by-step guide

[Conor Wynne]

On 28 Jan 2008, at 11:15, Cian Davis wrote:

> Conor Wynne wrote:
>> I always use curl, example:
>>
>> $ curl -C - -O http://blahblah/file.iso
>> It has resume features, and seems to always work, even over https.
>
> You need a version of curl that supports 4GB files - I can't remember
> which version is the one you need. Same with wget - it does support  
> it,
> but you need to have a new version.
>

never considered that, I downloaded rhel5.1server DVD the other day on  
this :
ibook-g4:~ Daddy$ curl -V
curl 7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l  
zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

I guess you need the "largefile" option compiled in -- which should be  
on anything recent.

Worked a treat, now two instances of rhel5.1 in xen on FC8.

> (In fairness, I was reasonably sure that both have supported large  
> files
> for quite a while now)
>
> Regards,
> Cian
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