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

[Heikki Pesonen]

Hurrah!
I have now the foresight-0.9.9-x86-disc1.iso and the md5sum is the right one.

And I started
wget -t 100 http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/downloadImage?fileId=11012
for disk2. It's eight a clock pm. in Finnland and wget has the whole
night time to get it. I go to sleep, because tomorrow I have start
installing Suse 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10 to my sons and sonsons and
sondaughters (4 years) and to my somns wifes computer. I must also
configure WLAN so I come back to Foresight Linux later. Thank's for
all!

On 1/18/07, Paul Scott-Wilson <pscott at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.
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