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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Interested, but lost. Post 39812 by cbkihong on Monday 1st of September 2003 02:35:45 AM

09-01-2003

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Where did you download from?

In general, anonymous FTP download sites use "anonymous" as the username while your email address as the password. If it does not let you go in, it is either a private distribution site that is for certain internal members only or its public download quota has exceeded.

If you don't have CD-writer (like I don't have one) or are on a slow connection, probably you may find it easier to install Debian Linux or FreeBSD, for example. You can download and prepare a few 1.44MB installation disks, which you use to bootup the install to complete downloading the rest of the files needed (so you don't need to download a large volume of files that you don't need before installation). But these flavours are not as beginner-friendly as RH, SuSE or Mandrake for example so you may want to see if some cheap Linux CDs can be purchased in your neighbourhood. Downloading an entire distribution on 56k can take you a lot of time (and thus $$$$).

I would not suggest using anything but real FTP clients, like WS FTP or Smart FTP for downloading of files. IMO they are more reliable.

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

diffindex-download

DIFFINDEX-DOWNLOAD(1)													     DIFFINDEX-DOWNLOAD(1)

NAME

       diffindex-download - Download utility for Debian Contents files

SYNOPSIS

       diffindex-download [ options ] URL filename

DESCRIPTION

       diffindex-download  is  a command line tool for downloading Contents files. It uses APT's diff/Index format patches when available to avoid
       downloading the full file.  diffindex-download is used by apt-file.

OPTIONS

	  -n number
	      If more than number patches would be necessary, download the whole file. Specifying 0 to always download the whole file is possible.

	  -k  Don't verify the peer certificate when using https.

	  -c cacert
	      If cacert is a directory: Use cacert as CA certificate path. Otherwise use cacert as CA certificate bundle.  See	the  --capath  and
	      --cacert options in the curl(1) man page.

	  -i  Don't exit with errror if the URL does not exist. This is useful as some archives don't provide Contents files.

	  -q  Be quiet (opposite of -v). The default if stdout is not a terminal.

	  -v  Be verbose (opposite of -q). The default if stdout is a terminal.

	  -d  Print additional debug info.

	  -h  Display a short help screen.

SEE ALSO

       apt-file(1), diffindex-rred(1), curl(1)

AUTHOR

       diffindex-download was written by Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>.

								   January 2009 					     DIFFINDEX-DOWNLOAD(1)