how can I use wget to download large files?

I'm using Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon running from an 8GB pendrive. I want to get the ISO for 'Linux Mint 14 “Nadia” KDE '. I tried using wget in the terminal. Here is exactly what I typed:

wget http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/linuxmint/stable/14/linuxmint-14-kde-dvd-64bit.iso

after it downloaded until 30% (after like 2 hours), I was dissappointed to see that it stopped downloading. I used wget because I do not want to leave my chromium-browser on. please help me so I can download it. Thanks in advance.

Solution 1:

You can continue failed downloads using wget. (Provided where you're downloading from supports it)

Quote:

Say we're downloading a big file:

$ wget bigfile

And bang - our connection goes dead (you can simulate this by quitting with Ctrl-C if you like). Once we're back up and running and making sure you're in the same directory you were during the original download:

$ wget -c bigfile

Provided where you're downloading from supports it, you should get going from exactly where you left off.

Solution 2:

Normally, wget has no file size limit.

If wget is failing, it is probably because you are running out of space on the pendrive. Do you have a free GB for the iso?

How did wget stop? Was there an error message? Did you perhaps allow the computer to go into suspend? If so, use wget -c as suggested by @dtmland.

Finally, wget does have an option to limit file size but it is not set by default. One possibility is that your sysadmin has set a limit by making wget an alias to something like wget --max-filesize N. To check if wget is an alias run alias wget.