Fedora main mirror disconnects

mustangfanatic · #1 14th October 2004, 05:21 AM

Everytime I tried to download the isos my download would just quit halfway through

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...re/2/i386/iso/

Others mirrors worked just fine for me, but now I"m trying to install kernel-sourcecode and I'm getting the same problem. Everytime it goes to download the needed files they just stop mid-download. If I close the terminal and open a new one it will start to download for a little while and then quit again. What's going on!?

#2 14th October 2004, 06:41 AM

Why don't you just use the closest mirror. It should increase your reliability and speed

The downloads from fedora.redhat.com usually take a lot longer and as you know are much more prone to disconnects because every tries to use them and thet get saturated. This is why we have mirrors. You should use yum to install software.

Code:

yum install <package-name>

so in your case

Code:

yum install kernel-sourcecode

You should also use mirrors in your /etc/yum.conf file.

mustangfanatic · #3 14th October 2004, 04:29 PM

Thank you

I just didn't know how to change the mirror was all.

taylor65 · #4 14th October 2004, 04:35 PM

I tried downloading the 4 ISOs for FC3t3 yesterday, and I used 4 different mirrors (a different mirror per iso, none of them redhat.com), and I didn't get more than 200MB for any ISO. I noticed that I tried ftp for all of them. I'm re-trying with http to see if that helps.

mustangfanatic · #5 14th October 2004, 04:40 PM

yeah it took me several tries to find a mirror that wouldn't disconnect on me. I ended up using the buffalo one for all 4 isos with no problem

#6 14th October 2004, 11:32 PM

How are trying to download them? I hope your not just using your browser! Files that aree evr about 30MB on dsl should be downloaded with a download manager. There are several fancy ones, but you should use wget from the command line or kget for a gui. You should always read the man pages on every command line app befor you use it

Code:

man <app-name>

in your case

Code:

wget url

Jman · #7 15th October 2004, 02:46 AM

Might this be because of demand for test3? I know when FC3 comes out download.fedora.redhat.com will slow way down.

All the more reason to choose a close mirror.