David E. Fox wrote:
Dear David:On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:30:37 -0500 "Benjamin Sher" <sher07@mindspring.com> wrote:restarts my download. But there is no progress bar and no partial file on my desktop or wherever. How can I be sure that it is still downloading. It's been three hours. I use ADSL.Wbat client are you using? Even the textual mode clients should offer some sort of confirmation that something is happening, such as download speed, percent done, and so forth. If you aptitude install bittornado & bittornado-gui these will replace the other choices (using /etc/ alternatives -- you can still invoke the older clients by name, though) you'll get a nicer summary of what's going on. Also, bttornado-gui (at least for me) uses saner defaults for # of possible connections - the other clients I've used simply swamp my connection to the point that other net activity slows down as to be unusable. I have ADSL (1500 down, 128 up) as well here.BenjaminDidn't I run into you several years ago on redhat lists? :) Thank you for your pertinent comments, but I went ahead last night andddownloaded the CD iso file by FTP and installed it. Everything is fine. All my devices were recognized, etc. However, I still have a few issues that need to be resolved. Hopefully with the kind help of Debian users, they will be over the next few days. Benjamin |