Many sites will have trouble sustaining a connection to pull over a 672MB CD-ROM image file for the Mandrake distribution, so the chunked version below may help. The subdirectory tmp contains a copy of Mandrake/iso/mandrake70.iso, split into twenty-six chunks of 25MB (or less, for the last one). Recombine with cat mandrake70.iso-??? >mandrake70.iso to produce this file -r--r--r-- 1 root staff 672313344 Jan 13 01:27 mandrake70.iso However, if you have a good ftp client, such as the excellent ncftp available at ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/3.0BETA/ncftp-3.0beta21.tar.gz then it will be able to resume a broken connection without loss of data, or retransmission of data that has already been fetched.