Re: [linuxiran] wget problem

[Arash Bijanzadeh]

Try copying the file to a linux box and resume with wget. It may work for you.

On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:30, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2003 18:06, Ali Yazdy wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >    I've been downloading gentoolinux with wget -c on
> > my win98 with Cygwin.evrything was OK untill I've
> > downloaded 120 mb ,than when I returned to resume the
> > task suddenly it gave me this message and quite.
> >  "Can not write to
> > 'gentoo-3stages-x86-1.4_rc4.iso'(Premission denied)."
> >  i've ls -l the file and it said that the file belong
> > to me
> > and after all I'm the only user on my Cygwin . does
> > any one have countered the similar problem .or any
> > solotion that I dont have to download the whole 224mg
> > byt again.
> >
> > thanks
>
> Poor kid :-) I can imagine how frustrating this is to you. But a google
> search on "wget cygwin permission denied" seems to show that you are
> not alone, and this seems to be a common problem under Cygwin.
>
> OT: now that you use windoze, I think you might try "flash get" download
> manager. My windoze buddies seem to like it very much. When I used
> windows, I used to use get right.
>
> On GNU/Linux, I only use "axel".
>
> cheers