On 12/06/2010 03:05 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> bert barten wrote:
>> How can it be that while downloading the 6.0 rolling at 168 mb it
>> hangs and goes not further. I tried it on 3 different mirrors. In
>> each mirror the same happend. How is that possible?
>
> Hi Bert,
> It sounds like you are using Internet Explorer to download the iso
> images from one of the http download areas.
> If that is the case you can solve the problem in two ways.
> 1- use firefox
> 2- use the ftp mirrors instead of the http mirrors, such as
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/scientific/6rolling/
>
> Troy
Or download wget here: http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/

Then:
wget -c -t 0
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/SL-6-i386-DVD1.iso
wget -c -t 0
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/SL-6-i386-DVD2.iso