[ale] Agh! Can't download RH ISOs

[James P. Kinney III]

On my Mozilla and Galeon, I right-click and select download link and I
get a dialoge box to put it where I want it. In preferences, I can set
the default download directory.

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:21, Josh Freeman wrote:
> Not a good one, but one that works. Until I rebuild my machine and got
> /tmp onto a larger partition, I used Opera to download ISO images. It
> does not default to storing files in the /tmp directory. I'm not sure
> the logic behind this "feature" of mozilla, but it is bloody annoying,
> and I never did find a way to disable it.
> 
> 
> Josh
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:43, Joe wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > I just blew $60 on a RH network subscription. So I'm trying to download the
> > ISOs so I can burn them. It's a simple request: I want to download the
> > images to my home directory, which has a large number of free GB.
> > 
> > But both Mozilla and Lynx insist upon downloading the images to /tmp
> > and moving them to my home directory. That doesn't work; /tmp is on
> > a partition with only about .5GB free. Sure, I could move it, but
> > what a pain; and I shouldn't *have* to.
> > 
> > The RHN instructions say, "Please copy the URL for your ISO image into
> > this curl command:
> > 
> > curl -C - -O <the URL>"
> > 
> > But that doesn't work. When I try it, curl downloads a page that says,
> > "Nyah nyah, you aren't authorized, you thieving maggot", or something
> > similar. (Actually, it says, "[Blah blah,] your session has expired,
> > please sign in again" -- but if I do that and then try the curl
> > command on the URLs in the new page, the exact same thing happens.)
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -- Joe Knapka
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