Greetings Earthlings

[Colonel Panik]

Line up! 
Larry sent me, Larry the Free Software Guy aka Larry the #! Guy.
13 years of GNOME, can I do this?  Stand by for questions.

[VastOne]

Welcome Colonel Panik, we are glad to have you

Hopefully the download ended and the install went well...

[Sector11]

HEY!  You there, Colonel Panik, careful who you call Earthling! 

Welcome to our Sector of the Universe regardless of that slip!

ooooo that was bad!

[jedi]

Welcome Colonel Panik!  I hope my wget instructions didn't steer you wrong!  You'll find us a very awesome community, as well as having a really great distro!  And like Sector11 says, who says we're from Earth?

[jefsview]

Hi, Colonel Panik (love the nomenclature).

If you like Debian, then you're going to love VSIDO. By all means, USE the wget commands to download, or else you'll only have a shell. Wget works every time.

-- Jeff

[VastOne]

I need to have some of you who are having download issues run some type of a sniffer to see what is going on.  It is random and very difficult to trace from my end

It makes no sense...

[Sector11]

have no idea what a sniffer is ... but since I started using:

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alias wg2='wget --continue --limit-rate=200k'

I have not had issues - the most was that wget had to re-start 2 extra times, normall there is one re-start.

Never needed to worry about "tries" as an option either:

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       -t number
       --tries=number
           Set number of retries to number.  Specify 0 or inf for infinite
           retrying.  The default is to retry 20 times, with the exception of
           fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" (404), which
           are not retried.
As I just let it run.

What is a "sniffer"?  Never mind, Google told me

[jst_joe]

Welcome Colonel Panik.
You shouldn't have any problems.
VSIDO is one of the easiest distros I've ever installed.

[jefsview]

I need to have some of you who are having download issues run some type of a sniffer to see what is going on.  It is random and very difficult to trace from my end

It makes no sense...

I just figured the connection timed out. It happens @ Sourceforge, too.

[VastOne]

@Sector11, the wget method is functional and thank you for that..  It still troubles me that there are issues from my host

@jefsview,  Thanks.  I also wonder if it is an issue with what browser some are using. It would be interesting if it were tied to a specific browser or plugin

[jefsview]

@VastOne: I haven't tried the direct download since the first few ISO's. After a few failed dls with partial files, I just began using the wget command, which atuo-restarts any interupts in the process and makes like easier (as long as I cd into the right directory to find it

As a test, I just began a direct download with the latest ISO.

I'll let you know how it turns out. Looks about a 1/2 hour.

@Colonel Panik: sorry your intro thread got hijacked!  Ask us anything, and get comfortable -- VSIDO is fabulous.

[Sector11]

@ VastOne

Exactly why I made those wget aliases - I was having the same problem that killed downloads a 6-pack at a time (six in a row).

I see "hunt" in the repos - will that do what you are asking for help on?
I have: Iceweasel on a cable connection @ eth0

[jefsview]

@ VastOne: nope. Sorry. I only got about 185 mb on that last direct download using Google Chrome with a wireless g connection.

[jedi]

Very strange indeed.  I got the iso to direct download using (Gasp) IE10 in (Double Gasp) Windoze 7 Ultimate in order to install a VM on my wife's lappy.  Using wireless G here.  It was a very fast download too!  Created a bootable USB via unetbootin for Windoze, and am happily VM'ing till the new hardware arrives!

[dizzie]

i just use "wget -c <location://file>" have worked so far