Bittorrent

jroysdon · #1 7th November 2003, 07:28 AM

BitTorrent Client
BitTorrent Fedora Torrents:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow...86-iso.torrent
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow...86-iso.torrent

After your download (either via FTP or BitTorrent), use MD5SUM to verify that they're complete and not tampered with:
Fedora Core 1 MD5SUM

Avatraxiom · #2 7th November 2003, 10:36 AM

BitTorrent RPMs:

Red Hat 9
Red Hat 8

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jroysdon · #3 12th March 2004, 08:18 PM

The Linux Mirror Project has bittorrents for individual Fedora CDs as well:
http://tlm-project.org/distributions...pand_version=1

Thoreau · #4 23rd March 2004, 05:19 PM

what are the steps to get a torrent to download? I've had no luck so far

T-Man · #5 23rd March 2004, 06:04 PM

Thoreau, You need to install the Bit-torrent client, look up at the start of the thread.

Thoreau · #6 24th March 2004, 12:14 AM

no i did that, when i clicked on the Fedora Core torrent(at top) all it did was save the tag, Bit Torrent never opened. I never downloaded the torrent. didn't know how

mhelios · #7 24th March 2004, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Thoreau
no i did that, when i clicked on the Fedora Core torrent(at top) all it did was save the tag, Bit Torrent never opened. I never downloaded the torrent. didn't know how

Hi Thoreau,

Follow the instructions at this page to download Bittorrent for FC1 and use it:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

Thoreau · #8 24th March 2004, 01:25 PM

Quote:

btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 \
--url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/$torrent-filename-from-above-here.

that's what i needed! thanks.

So do you have to do that for every torrent you woud like? Still a little fuzzy, my friends told me about a site that has torrents on it. how would i get them?

mhelios · #9 24th March 2004, 10:12 PM

Yes, any .torrent file can be fed into the command you posted above (with different url and filename of course) and Bittorrent will do the rest.
For example this is how you would get FC1:

Code:

btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 \
--url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow...86-iso.torrent

Thoreau · #10 25th March 2004, 12:48 AM

cool, thanks a bunch

Jman · #11 25th March 2004, 01:06 PM

Moved to Links forum.

micha · #12 7th April 2004, 11:44 PM

I guess nobody mentioned Azureus, the best bittorent software

http://azureus.sf.net

Varkk · #13 8th April 2004, 02:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Thoreau
no i did that, when i clicked on the Fedora Core torrent(at top) all it did was save the tag, Bit Torrent never opened. I never downloaded the torrent. didn't know how

I use Azureus, great BT client. Also I have set mozilla to not save .torrent files but instead to open them with Azureus. This way I click on a torrent link and it will start it all for me automatically.

kosmosik · #14 24th April 2004, 04:58 PM

Ctorrent is great. Small and efficent. In fact it is only one binary after compilation and it is stable. Original client (one writen in Python) used to crash awfuly on my system after few hours. This one works like charm. Sshot:
http://kosmosik.one.pl/misc/ctorrent.jpeg

Thetargos · #15 23rd May 2004, 05:44 AM

Until I installed azureus, the BitTorrent world was alien to me... Now I love everyminute of it! However i always get NAT errors when trying to set up my router to accept connections from the outbound connection through port 6881+... I don't know how to correct this, I don't want to appears as a greedy BT user