securitybreach Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hi Ray, Sorry I've not been around for a while - but I must agree Mageia rocks for me. I've never had any issues with my Dell laptop - it just works Regards Jim Hey Jim, nice to see ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimtheplanner Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Hi Josh, I'm in the process of moving job/house/life and living off "wifi hotspots" - should be settled in a few months (I hope). Back on topic - I cant fault Mageia it just works for me without any hassle Regards Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Hi Josh, I'm in the process of moving job/house/life and living off "wifi hotspots" - should be settled in a few months (I hope). Back on topic - I cant fault Mageia it just works for me without any hassle Regards Jim Good deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) I'm distro sampling a lot lately. I decided to try Mageia. Am presently downloading the 32bit gnome CD version. Their server is quite bandwidth limited. It's making a stately ~70KB rate right now. Estimated download time 2.5 hours. I'll let it finish... What I remember the most from Mandriva 2009 and 2010 is that they were the most likely to be able to fully boot on flaky hardware. Don't know why, but they often did the job where the Ubuntu flavor distros weren't cutting it. Mandriva has always had my respect, although I'm way more familiar with the Debian types and therefore use them the most. Edit: Oh crap. Two and a half hours. I got a 621MB file, not 700Mb. I quit, just too hard... Edited November 5, 2011 by Cluttermagnet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Oh crap. Two and a half hours. I got a 621MB file, not 700Mb. I quit, just too hard... What are you using to download? Not your browser I hope. I always use >wget< as you can just start it again with the -c switch if it stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 What are you using to download? Not your browser I hope. I always use >wget I could not agree more, >wget:thumbup: I always use >wget You probably know this but remove the > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 And, for those of us who like to click on things & such, there are nifty GUI frontends available: Gwget KGet CLICK - THIS IS AN AUTO-GENERATED GUI PENGUIN BOT MESSAGE - PLEASE DO NOT POUR SULFURIC ACID ONTO THIS MESSAGE - CLICK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 CLICK - THIS IS AN AUTO-GENERATED GUI PENGUIN BOT MESSAGE - PLEASE DO NOT POUR SULFURIC ACID ONTO THIS MESSAGE - CLICK Rofl :hysterical: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I could not agree more, >wget< FTW I always use >wget< -c when downloading ISOs plus you're already in the terminal so you can check the md5sum right afterwards. You probably know this but remove the >< symbols from the above command. I installed it from the Mandriva package manager but I don't know how to use it. What should I put into the url address window? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I installed it from the Mandriva package manager but I don't know how to use it. What should I put into the url address window? For instance: <wget> -c http://www.archlinux.org/iso/2011.08.19/archlinux-2011.08.19-core-x86_64.iso Without the symbols around it Misread the question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 What should I put into the url address window? The complete url to the iso image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 The complete url to the iso image. I have to reply in little bits because I keep getting a 403 Forbidden error message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) What I was trying was <ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/Slackware Linux/slackware-13-37-install-dvd.iso> as in Edited November 5, 2011 by réjean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Réjean, It does not like ftp. Try again with this addy: http://www.slackware.org.uk/slackware/slackware-13.37-iso/slackware-13.37-install-dvd.iso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I tried Urmas way but; code][rejean@localhost ~]$ whereis gcc gcc: /usr/lib/gcc [/code] then: [rejean@localhost ~]$ cd gwget [rejean@localhost gwget]$ tar -xvzf gwget-1.0.4.tar.gz gwget-1.0.4/ ... [code] [rejean@localhost gwget]$ cd gwget-1.0.4 [rejean@localhost gwget-1.0.4]$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2 checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [rejean@localhost gwget-1.0.4]$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 But... your screenshot is telling me you are using Gwget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Réjean, It does not like ftp. Try againwith this addy: http://www.slackware.org.uk/slackware/slackware-13.37-iso/slackware-13.37-install-dvd.iso Thanks Urmas! It looks better! It has retrieved over 150 000 kb so far. Looks promising. I'll stay away from FTP from now on but where do you find the HTTP addresses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) But... your screenshot is telling me you are using Gwget. So the one you suggested and the one that came from the Mandriva package manager are the same then and all my problems are solved. Thank you so much One minute little detail; why didn't Josh's link work? Edited November 5, 2011 by réjean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I have to reply in little bits because I keep getting a 403 Forbidden error message Sorry that was just an example url as it was really the torrent link, I just cut off the end to give you an idea of what to do. Also, it works perfectly well with ftp and https See: (That mirror is a bit slow but you get the idea) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Also, it works perfectly well with ftp and https So it does indeed. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 So it does indeed. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Says Mr. Me-Gives-You-Dud-FTP-Linkys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urmas Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I'll stay away from FTP from now on but where do you find the HTTP addresses? No need to stay away from ftp addies as you can see, but to answer your question: http://www.slackware.org.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Thanks guys! Btw I wasn't going to download ArchLinux because I did so a few days ago> I am still trying to install it in VBox ( the 32 version that is ) and I found Josh' tutorial last night so it should be easier next time I give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Note the -c switch means continue, so you don't need it when you start the download. It will even resume a partial download started by another program. To find the correct URL, you can go in your browser to the direct download link, right-click and select "Copy Link Location". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 (edited) What are you using to download? Not your browser I hope. I always use >wget< as you can just start it again with the -c switch if it stops. Uhhh- yep, my browser. So rarely does it screw up, that I had long since concluded it was an 'ok' method to grab downloads. Apparently not? Anyway, the browser apparently felt that it had the whole download. It did not. The download died unattended by me and it looked like the entire download time had been wasted. I just looked in my downloads history, and apparently I was so PO'ed that I deleted it from the history. Ah, well... As I say, so rarely have I seen any problems downloading with FF that I had apparently concluded it is an 'ok' method. My hunch- the server wasn't up to the load, somebody flushed, and I got a cold shower. Maybe they needed to dump me to do 'server maintenance'. Whatever. Isn't it kind of insane to put a 700M software package on a server that can only stream it at 70KB? Something not quite right there. DSL, I guess... I'll look into some of these supposedly superior download methods... Edited November 7, 2011 by Cluttermagnet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Uhhh- yep, my browser. So rarely does it screw up, that I had long since concluded it was an 'ok' method to grab downloads. Apparently not? Anyway, the browser apparently felt that it had the whole download. It did not. The download died unattended by me and it looked like the entire download time had been wasted. I just looked in my downloads history, and apparently I was so PO'ed that I deleted it from the history. Ah, well... As I say, so rarely have I seen any problems downloading with FF that I had apparently concluded it is an 'ok' method. I have downloaded dozens of distros, several of them more than 3 Gb using FF and I have rarely encountered problems. Mind you we do have a good high speed connection here. As a matter of fact I was remembering a few days ago the time it would take to download the latest version of netscape (~ 18 MB, in about 30 min ) when I was on a dial-up connection. Wow I now get that in a few seconds. Ah!!! The good new days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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