Ubuntu must have a support forum... looks like these are your Ubuntu support options.
Ubuntu must have a support forum... looks like these are your Ubuntu support options.
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Martinco (01-Feb-11)
I have subscribed to the Ubuntu forum.............lets see what happens.
Martin Coetzee
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You may never know what results will come from your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results... Rudy Malan † 05/03/2011
You could also download it using a system other than ftp that will allow for continued download if your connection fails. Torrents would work or even using a good download manager.
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Martinco (02-Feb-11)
Andy,
Give me a few pointers..................thanks
Martin Coetzee
Supplier of Stainless Steel Band and Buckle and various fastening systems. Steel, Plastic, Galvanized, PET and Poly woven.
We solve your fastening problems.
www.straptite.com
You may never know what results will come from your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results... Rudy Malan † 05/03/2011
Sorry martin, I typed a post twice now and both times hit the back button by accident whilst putting in the hyperlinks and the board text editor has dumped the post......grrrrrr. Im out of time (and patience), I'll post again later with instructions.
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Is there a free download manager out there that isn't full of spyware/adware/whatever? That would be the easiest.
I tried one a while ago and it worked great - but strange things started happening to my "internet browsing experience" so I dumped the critter. It was just a little too invasive for my liking.
But there must be a good one out there that just does what it's supposed to and nothing more.
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I've been using Free Download Manager for quite a while now and it works excellently. If you use Firefox you can get the FlashGot extension
The download managers I've tried are all too invasive for my liking. You could maybe install one in a sandbox, complete your download ftp style and ditch the sandbox when you've finished.
The other suggestion I had was to download it as the official torrent. Torrents are a continuable download system, if your conection drops you only lose the very small piece that will fail the hashcheck. First download and install a torrent client such as utorrent if you're using Windows, it's very simple, or Vuze which has more complicated options, (it's java based so therefore X-platform) if you're on a linux based os. Both those torrent clients are freeware.
Then go here to the official alternative ubuntu d/l page and rummage for the .torrent file for the particular distro that takes your fancy. Load the .torrent file into your freshly installed client and away it goes. The only downside of the torrent system is that you'll also upload some data to the rest of the swarm but I would imagine the Ubuntu torrent is hosted on some convincing seedboxes so I doubt you'll be out of pocket for much extra bandwidth.
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I see on a couple of other telecoms forums that the oversized installation screen is a known issue with the latest ubuntu edition. It's especially playing havoc with the server edition which is more often than not installed remotely. I haven't seen a workaround yet but if I do I'll post it here.
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I have downloaded Free download manager and seems to work fine............thanks.
Martin Coetzee
Supplier of Stainless Steel Band and Buckle and various fastening systems. Steel, Plastic, Galvanized, PET and Poly woven.
We solve your fastening problems.
www.straptite.com
You may never know what results will come from your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results... Rudy Malan † 05/03/2011
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