Hi, John: She actually answered this question in her post--and she's right. The reason to prefer ftp over http is that you can resume from the point where you left off when you use a smart ftp client like ncftp. This is not possible, so far as I'm aware, with any web user agent, certainly not IE. So, what she's saying is she doesn't want to start over again at the beginning every time her download breaks. This is correct and it's discussed in our installation HOWTO. Starting over is the last thing you want to do on a dialup connection especially. John McCann writes: > Liz: > > I'm confused! What's preventing you from using your web brouser to download > the fourth disk again? > > Where are you downloading the disks from? Bill Acker's "octothorp" site? > > John McCann > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liz Hare" <doggene at earthlink.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:16 AM > Subject: Difficulty downloading Fedora > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to do something nearly impossible-- download the fedora > > installation disks over dialup. I know it's insane. Anyway, I managed to > > get three of them and most of the fourth, but now whenever I try to ftp to > > the server I get a message that the connection was closed by the host. > > I've tried both NcFTP and Bulletproof FTP. Oddly, I could theoretically > > download it through the web browser but that's not going to be able resume > > the download after my ISP drops me. > > > > Is there another place to download these disks, or any other option? > > > > Thanks, > > Liz > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
