Today I'm having intermittent connection, again thanks to my ISP, I'm downloading OpenBSD snapshot since I need the latest OpenBSD to try out network interface trunking. It shouldn't be too hard to download by using wget and creating iso for the snapshot.
shell>mkdir -p /nsm/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386
shell>cd /nsm/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386
shell>wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/*
Bang!!! Again my internet connection stucked and stop working, if I have used the ftp client that comes with OpenBSD, I'm totally screw out and have to redownload it, fortunately with wget, I can just resume it with
shell>wget -c ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/*
Now the download resumes and I able to continue on it without problem. If the connection goes wrong again, I will be able to resume again with the same command. After the snapshot has been downloaded, I just need to run the commands below to create the iso for it.
shell> cd /nsm
shell>mkhybrid -r -b snapshots/i386/cdrom38.fs -c "boot.catalog" -o OpenBSD_20051226.iso OpenBSD
I prefer to put a date to keep track of iso I created because snapshot updates frequently. By now you should already have the OpenBSD_20051226.iso and you can burn it to CD using any kind of Operating Systems.
Ain't it easy to create OpenBSD iso :]
shell> cd /nsm
shell>mkhybrid -r -b snapshots/i386/cdrom38.fs -c "boot.catalog" -o OpenBSD_20051226.iso OpenBSD
I prefer to put a date to keep track of iso I created because snapshot updates frequently. By now you should already have the OpenBSD_20051226.iso and you can burn it to CD using any kind of Operating Systems.
Ain't it easy to create OpenBSD iso :]
4 comments:
Ya, wget is nice, can resume. But is there other downloader where it can download multiple sections simultaneously just like flashget or net-transporter in linux?
I am not sure what file type is .fs
But in linux, to rip out iso from cdrom can use dd
dd if=\\cdrom-mount-point of=c:~\disc1.iso bs=1M
(can use dd on windows too.)
I don't know much about other downloaders, however I was successfully running flashget using wine before that. Especially with ubuntu, everything becomes handy.
Don't blame ISP, TMNut is bad, their connection still better than the average Internet Service Provider...
;-)
try the firefox extension -> "Down Them All" , or the standalone downloader Downloader4X .. both support chucking and can resume .. supports both ftp and http .. i personally prefer DTA for everyday use and D4X when i need some advanced functions (eg. multiple sources for 1 download, switching source url , etc) .. both are great IMO
TMNut's HTTP service is GREAT! .. its not rare getting > 100KBps with http download .. however , other protocols with then sux .. FTP slow .. Torrent worst ...
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