How do you download a whole distribution at once from an ftp mirror? Ive never used ftp to DL more than 1 file at a time from konsole I tried mget, get as well as using wild cards like this get /slackware/*/*/*/*. Ive been looking for how to's but can't find any that deal with what I'm looking for. I know there is probably a simple solution but I can't find it. Any help?

Hello,

Have a look at wget. It provides multiple ways to download and works with ftp also.
Kind regards,

Eric

Eric after giving the wget man page a look would something like this be what I would need?
ftp> wget -i /pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware_13.1 -o /home/ftp/slackware_13.1

Hello,

Don't execute it from the ftp> console but at a normal console level. I imagine you're trying wget on Linux, right? (noticing the Windoze icon). Wget will download the files in the directory where you execute it, so first cd into the directory where you want the files.

Kind regards,

Eric

Wouldn't I log onto the server and be at the ftp prompt? or would I use this #wget -i /mirrorname/pub/slackware/slacckware_13.1 -o /whateverdir/. Im not trying to do this from windows I'm just on a windows computer right now that will be a slackware computer once I get this usb stick made.

Nope. As Eric said, wget is a command line tool on its own. It takes care of establishing a connection based on the protocol specified in the URL and download files and directories following the specified path. For example, the command:
should download (mirror) recursively the entire slackware directory from the remote server into the current directory.

Another suitable tool is lftp. You can either use it in a single command line or establish a connection and work interactively at a lftp command prompt (maybe you feel more comfortable with this second one). The advantage over the normal ftp client is that it can manage recursive download and mirrors. For example a single command line like this should do the trick:
whereas
offers you a command prompt.

Anonymous connection is the default for both wget and lftp. Hope this helps.

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply but I was in a meeting although I have nothing to add to the description colucix provided.

Kind regards,

Eric

Thanks guys I was making it harder than need be. Will try this when I have access to cable internet again in afew days.

Hi,

You're welcome. Hope it works out. Please let us know if it does or if you encounter problems.

Kind regards,

Eric