[CentOS] download centos 5.2

Sun Jun 29 07:02:32 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

fabian dacunha wrote:
> actually i used wget to download it
> but im 100% sure there was no file b4 in the same directory with the same
> name
> also the md5sum was different as i said b4 for the second file
>
> actually here the message for you info
>
> wget http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> --23:38:42-- 
> http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> Resolving centos.bio.lmu.de... 141.84.43.23, 2001:4ca0:4300::1:17
> Connecting to centos.bio.lmu.de|141.84.43.23|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 4020600832 (3.7G) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: `CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso'
>
>  1% [                                              ] 52,617,147   119K/s  
> in 6m 55s
>
> 23:45:37 (124 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 52617147. Retrying.
>
>   

yes, your first attempted bombed


> --23:45:38--  (try: 2) 
> http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> Connecting to centos.bio.lmu.de|141.84.43.23|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
> Length: 4020600832 (3.7G), 3967983685 (3.7G) remaining
> [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: `CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.1'
>
>   

and the 2nd try saved it to the .1 file

> 100%[===========================================>] 4,020,600,832  179K/s  
> in 5h 25m
>
> 05:11:37 (198 KB/s) - `CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-DVD.iso.1' saved
> [4020600832/4020600832]
> ---------------
>
>   

and APPEARS to have completed.   Try deleting the partial .iso file, and 
renaming the .1 file to the correct filename and then run the md5sum 
check again.

> i think i should use torrent to download it
>   

or, yeah, do it over that way.