[Mailinglist] pausing & resuming Wget for downloading ISOs

[Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil]

Hello All,

I am trying to download some ISOs using Wget (version 1.10.x)... I
downloaded around 3 - 4 times, the same distro ISO (& a different distro)
from different sites. And after downloding, burnt it (tried both Nautilus
CD Burner & Brasero alternatively in OpenSuse 10.1 & Dreamlinux 2.2
respectively). The system does detect the CD and starts to boot from it
... but halts in the loading of the kernel / initializing during booting.

Now, the problem could (or would) be, because I am stopping Wget, by
Ctrl-C, when I leave every morning for office (I usually unplug the
monitor and leave the system ON overnight for downloading) and resume it
after I reach back home. But sadly, none of these ISO downloads have
returned me a successful result. I also tried Ctrl-Z for stopping Wget
(which 'seems' to be the right way to pause Wget), but even that is
giving the same result.

So... could somebody tell me the correct way to pause Wget when
downloading big ISOs? My case is, I would have to pause the download in
between and then resume later. Or is Wget not suitable for this sort of
activity? I've searched & read some help / info / manuals on Wget, but
none of them seems to give a specific reply to this issue. Even now, I am
parallely trying to get more info on Wget.

The syntax which I used is given below:

wget -c http://linorg.usp.br/iso/dreamlinux/DL_2.2_070701MMGL_en.iso -O
/mnt/hda8/Distros/DL22GL.iso


Zaheer M K
GNU/Linux user #351122
Registered at http://counter.li.org

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