Here's a script to get most of the isos via the bittorrent client rtorrent: tors=" http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso.torrent http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.iso.torrent " wget $tors rtorrent *.torrent Place in a screen session, disconnect, and wait. Regards, - Robert Presumably you would do this from a directory that contained no .torrent files when you started. Also, you should delete the lines that correspond to files that you don't want. Mike