[Mailinglist] pausing & resuming Wget for downloading ISOs

[Priyadarsan Roy]

Dear Zaheer,

I have been using wget with -c for a long time now. Even if you do Ctrl + c and then start again wget will start from where it has stopped. I have never had a problem with this. Can you try booting this ISO from some other system with different configuration. It can be a hardware issue and that is why it is why it is not working from your system. 

Regards,
PD

Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil <zaheermk at email.com> wrote: 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
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