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IanBell wrote: | On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 4:49 pm, Nick Daniels wrote: | |>Hi |> I cannot download Kernel 2.6 as it is too big for my two hour cut off |>on my isp.(no resume). I have downloaded Kernel 2.6 RPM from |>Suse on a spare machine and everything seemed to work O.K. |> Yast autodetected my hardware and reconfigured it, every |>thing worked except the sound, although it reconised the soundcards |> I tried it was unable to configure them, it suggested the IRQ may |>be wrong. This is my first attempt to install a new kernel |>System Suse 9.0 pro 1.6 Ghz AMD |> Regards |> |> Nick Daniels
further to the wget comments, wget won't exit until it has finished the file. Therefore, assuming your connection auto-redialls when it gets cut off, one run of wget -c <url> should do it. Which means you could start it and go to bed, and it'd eventually finish. It's the method i use for unreliable downloads, and i have successfully downloaded all of kde (~10 files, ~15mb each) twice, openoffice binary distribution, twice (~100mb).
The only problem is getting the url from sites with smartass downloading ~ scripts. best bet is to start the download in firefox (or similar) and copy the url from the dowload window. run wget -c <url> and check it starts, then kill firefox's download. This even works with sun's bloody annoying jdk downloading thingy. <snip>