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
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 04:49:38PM +0100, 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.
If you can get hold of the url that you want to download the kernel from you could use wget to grab the file and then use it to continue the download after you have been kicked off.
For example
wget http://myinterwebserver.example/myultralarge.file
<something breaks and the download ceases>
then I can do
wget -c http://myinterwebserver.example/myultralarge.file
then the -c will make wget continue the download.
Adam
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
Try to find an ftp site for the kernel. Then use gftp to download it it. when you get close to the 2 hour cutoff stop the download. Redial then restart the download. gftp asks if you want to relaod or resume - choose resume. Works OK for me anf my 2 hour cut off.
HTH
Ian
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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>
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