Re: Will marketing turn Red Hat into the M$ of Linux Distributions?[Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Get it Early]

[Gerry Tool <gstool earthlink net>]

Joe Christy wrote:
> What's up with "recommend[ing] that you use *curl* to download the ISO 
> images ... |*curl -C - -O 'very_long_url'"? What kind of cruel joke is 
> this? How many tries do they think it is going to take a mere mortal to 
> copy that 'very_long_url' from the status line of mozilla without an 
> error? What good does it do anyway that "*|The '*|-C -|*' option allows 
> you to continue the download if it is interrupted" if the session 
> authentication cookie expires, invalidating the 'very_long_url' hours 
> before the connection craps out (which is days before the download might 
> conceivably finish at 5kBps)?

Right click on the "very long url" in the browser window, select Copy Link 
Location, paste it into an editor window.  Highlight it, go to your 
terminal window, type in curl -C - - O , then press the middle mouse button 
to paste in the very long url.  No errors.  Repeat with a new visit to the 
rhn site whenever the process stops.  I too was frustrated, but now have 
one complete ISO with proper checksum, one estimated to end in 10 minutes 
and the last in another 3 hours.  I restarted a number of times, but the 
end is now in sight.

gerry tool