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Downloading the Distribution

An ISO image of the STLinux distribution can be downloaded using a web browser or an FTP client. For Linux, the most common FTP client is the command line ftp program, although more sophisticated clients such as lftp are also available. Under Windows, there are numerous clients available, including CuteFTP, FileZilla, SmartFTP, or WS-FTP.

Using a web browser to download an ISO image

  1. Navigate to the FTP server: ftp://ftp.stlinux.com/pub/stlinux, either by clicking on the above link or typing the URL into the browser.
  2. Select the folder containing the release required (for example, to download STLinux-2.3, select the folder called 2.3).
  3. To download the ISO image, select the iso folder.
  4. Within this folder, select the required file (for example STLinux-2.3-sh4-03-11-07.iso).
  5. Save that file in an appropriate local directory.

Using command line ftp to download an ISO image

  1. Start the ftp client, specifying the address of the FTP server: ftp ftp.stlinux.com.
  2. Enter anonymous as the user name, and your email address as the password.
  3. lcd to the destination directory on your host machine.
  4. cd to the required download directory on the FTP server. For example: /pub/stlinux/2.3/iso
  5. Enter the binary command to set the transfer mode.
  6. Download the required files, using the get command. If downloading multiple files the mget command may be useful.
  7. When the transfer has finished, use the quit command to exit ftp.

In the following example, an STLinux-2.3 ISO image file is downloaded from the STLinux FTP site to the /home/STLinux directory on the local PC. 

host% ftp ftp.stlinux.com
Connected to ftp.stlinux.com.
220 Welcome to stlinux.com FTP service.
User (ftp.stlinux.com:(none)): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password: tester@st.com
230 Login successful.
ftp> lcd /home/STLinux
Local directory now /home/STLinux
ftp> cd /pub/stlinux/2.3/iso
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get STLinux-2.3-sh4-03-11-07.iso
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for STLinux-2.3-sh4-03-11-07.iso (327757824 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 327757824 bytes received in 75.05Seconds 4367.31Kbytes/sec.
ftp> quit
221-You have transferred 327757824 bytes in 1 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 327758376 bytes in 1 transfers.
221 Thank you for using the FTP service on ftp.stlinux.com.