[plug] big ISO, never-ending download!

[Mike Holland]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> 
>>  Still no feedback, but its hitting the disk hard, presumably 
>>checksumming.
>>...
>>Now 'rsync' is just sleeping. Will wait.
> 
> 
> The -P option to rsync is useful, it gives a progress thingy within a
> file and will not delete a partially-transferred file if rsync is

Ah yes, thats what I needed, thanks.
Eventually (good chunk of an hour?), rsync started the progress meter,
and told me I had 83%. All fixed now.  The transfer rate and ETA
reported were a joke though. It assumed downloading was as fast as
checksumming.