[Foresight-distro] Re: The md5sum for Foresight Linux Disc 1 and 2

[Paul Scott-Wilson]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:31:31AM +0200, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
| Thank you for your kind advice!
|
| I need that "-c" for wget. Recently my computer has been running 24
| hours and and I have 66% of the file at my home. Sometimes "Read error
| at byte ..." or for other reasons the transfer stops.
|
| I do not download large filea regularly so I have not studied how to
| use bittorrent. How to start it?

Your welcome.

I also have a 512Kb connection and don't normally have problems downloading
large files. If your connection is dropping a lot then using the torrent could
certainly help. Not because it'd download faster or more reliably (although it
might) but because it can resume and recover from errors.

If you want to try you'll need a bittorrent client. Assuming your on Linux,
since you have wget, you best bet is to see what your distribution has
available. The official client called 'bittorrent' would be enough. On windows
you could use utorrent. Once you have that you need the torrent files for the
CDs, they are on the same page as the normal downloads. Click where it says
"Bittorrent" and save that file somewhere. If you already have 66% of the file
you probably want to continue it. I'd recommend you backup the file first
by making a copy. Most clients will load half downloaded files but its not
guaranteed and you don't want it to delete what you have. Then it should be a
case of loading the .torrent file into the client and selecting a location to
save - which is the part of the iso you already have. Hopefully it should then
check the pieces you have and download the ones you don't. The torrents aren't
aren't well seeded but you should get at least the speed you were getting from
the http download.

One word of warning - because of the way bittorrent works you won't be able to
resume the file again with wget once you've tried using it with bittorrent -
which is another reason to back it up first.

If you have any other problems then you can post to the list or drop by the
IRC channel (#foresight on freenode). There are more people in the channel so
you'd get a faster response.

--
Paul.