From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 14:46:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7110137B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:46:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dali.celtelplus.com (dali.celtelplus.com [217.113.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EBBB43F3F for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arb@anand.org) Received: from anand.org (ip503c1252.speed.planet.nl [80.60.18.82]) (AUTH: LOGIN anand, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by dali.celtelplus.com with esmtp; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:46:12 +0100 Received: from arb by mobile.anand.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18YZok-0004EJ-00; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:58 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:45:58 +0100 From: Anand Buddhdev To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: lynx downloads Message-ID: <20030114224558.GA16248@anand.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:42:00PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > i am trying to download an iso image with lynx from a http site. i noticed > that lynx stores the file in the /tmp directory. the problem is my /tmp is > only 250MB but the iso is 500+ MB. What can i do in order avoid getting disk > errors while downloading this file? Use wget or curl instead of lynx. These utilities download the file via FTP or HTTP directly to the location of your choice, eg: $ cd /path/to/big/partition $ wget http://site/large.iso -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message