[postal2mac] Disk Image Frustration

[Cesar Barcenas]

I tried Curl, and it stopped for me 3 times, could not resume afterwards.
In both safari and IE I was averaging 3 or more hours to download and
stopping multiple times.  I spent I think 3 hours trying this morning.
Till I tried SD.  It took 30 min to download with speed download.

Cesar


> From: hotblack <hotblack at sietchtabr.plus.com>
> Reply-To: <postal2mac at icculus.org>
> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 03:59:54 +0100
> To: <postal2mac at icculus.org>
> Subject: Re: [postal2mac] Disk Image Frustration
> 
> I downloaded it fine with curl, a command line tool included with OS X,
> here's my previous e-mail's:
> 
>> There are two commandline utilities you can use that should cope with
>> interruptions better than Safari, curl and wget. curl comes as default
>> with OS X, wget is downloadable as part of Fink, on it's own, or
>> compile it yourself from source.
>> Simple instructions for curl.
>> - Open up Terminal.app
>> - Navigate to the folder you want to save the file to, eg cd
>> ~/downloads/
>> - Enter the following command:
>> curl -u postal2mac:p33p33Hz
>> http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg -o
>> postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
>> You can also miss out the username and password and curl will prompt
>> you for them.
>> 
>> If you've got wget the syntax is wget --http-user=<username>
>> --http-passwd=<password> <full path of download>, so you'd type
>> wget --http-user=postal2mac --http-passwd=p33p33Hz
>> http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
> 
>> For those of you that are CLI-phobic ;)
>> 
>> GUI frontend for curl
>> http://www.sevensquareinches.com/software/icurl0.9.0.sit
>> 
>> Wget GUI frontend (needs the below package)
>> http://www.cosmos.ne.jp/%7Ekaz6120/download/SimpleWget.0.81.tar.gz
>> Wget package
>> http://homepage.mac.com/kaz6120/osx/wget-1.8.2-jaguar.tar.gz
> 
>> Curl should continue if the transfer is interrupted, it is also
>> capable of resuming a partial transfer. To get curl to automagically
>> try to resume, use the '-C -' option
>> curl -C - -u username:password <remote file> <partial local file>
> 
> Once download burn the image to a cd to install and play. Some others
> have said that mounting it with Toast works too.
> 
> Cheers,
> ben
>