Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix for Kids Beta

["Dave Prentice" <prentice@instruction.com>]

Stephen,
    I had a couple incomplete http downloads too. Try wget instead.
I've never had a problem with it.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
<schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix for Kids Beta


>Hi Dave,
>
>On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 22:16, Dave Prentice wrote:
>
>>     You can also try right-clicking, then something like "Save
Target
>> As" or whatever your browser gives you. I had trouble with the
md5sum
>> on the iso image from
>> http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/knoppix.release.iso, and wound up
>> having to go to
>> http://www.swfo.arizona.edu/~hmcgregor/knoppix.release.iso to get
the
>> proper md5.
>
>It is a little bid strange here.  Sometimes I did the same by right
>clicking the URL.  But this time right-click only popup 2 options
"open
>link in browser" and "copy link location"  I am running Ximian
>Evolution.
>
>I met this kind of difficulty before without a solution.  I think
there
>is some problem encountered on server side.
>
>I did following test;
>
>1) clinking the URL to open the ISO image
>2) from the URL
"http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/knoppix.release.iso";
>deleted "knoppix.release.iso" and "ENTER"
>3) it started "Index of /~micros" page.  Clinking
"knoppix.release.iso"
>on this page also opened the ISO image file
>4) right clicked "knoppix.release.iso" and selected "Save Link Target
>As"
>5) then it started to download the ISO image..
>6) After about 15-20 minutes, it finished saying download complete.
But
>the ISO image file has only about 60MB in size.
>
>I tried several times with the same result.
>
>
>>     I also have the iso mirrored at
>> www.originsresource.org/downloados.htm. I have a DSL connection, so
I
>> have no idea how fast the throughput might be. If you use my site,
>> please email me back to let me the kb/sec you get.
>
>I tried clicking "KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-05-20-EN.iso" on the website but
>also opening the file.  Then I tried with right click method and it
>started to download.  The speed is only about 21~23 kb/sec.  It need
>about 8 hours to complete.
>
>B.Regards
>Stephen
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>
>> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
>> <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix for Kids Beta
>>
>> >Hi Roger,
>> >Thanks for your response.
>> >I still have no luck.  I tried by holding down "shift" key /
'CRTL"
>> key
>> >before clicking.  The browser (mozilla / konqueror) still opened
the
>> ISO
>> >image.
>> >I will try wget later but I am not familiar with it.  Is it the
>> syntax;
>> ># wget http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/knoppix.release.iso
>> >B.Regards
>> >Stephen
>>
>>
>
>