[Tfug] picking up where you left off

[erich]

OK,
      I took a while but I now have a CD image for my alpha 233
(I want to migrate it to Gentoo). After the download was completed
I checked the image with gpg. Gpg gave some warning messages, but no
errors so I think we're good to go.

                                                                                                         
Erich
erich wrote:

>   I want to download a CD image. Unfortuntely I only have dialup,
>and CD images typically take longer to download than the 4-hour
>session time usually afforded  by dialup.
>
>   I once herd of a utility that would somhow monitor the file transfer
>process and "bookmark" the partial complete point.
>
>   I know this is technically feasable under Gentoo's emerge -f. If
>emerge is cut off in a file fetch process, it will simply pick up
>at the cutoff point. Unfortunately, emerge is not good at fetching
>CD images.
>
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