On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:30, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 05:10, James McKenzie wrote: > > > Is the Torrent incorporated with FC, or is it something that I have to > > get at another location? If the latter applies, how about a source? > > BitTorrent client software for Windows and Mac is available here: > > http://bittorrent.com/download.html > > Client software for FC2 is available from here: > > http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2/RPMS.newrpms/bittorrent-3.4.2-1.rhfc2.nr.noarch.rpm I've got RPMs for RH9, FC1 and FC2 at http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/ Also available there (for FC2 only) is a useful little program called GTorrentViewer that will show you information about a torrent, such as how many people are seeding it (have full copies); torrents without seeds are best avoided as you can spend a long time downloading 90% of a distro and then find that nobody has a copy of the remaining 10%. > On Windows and Mac you'll have to ask elsewhere, as I don't use those > platforms. On FC download a suitable BitTorrent RPM such as the one > above and install it. If you're not using FC2 then use google to find a > BitTorrent RPM for whatever distro you are using. Then when FC3 comes > out find the link on the download page to the torrent file, which will > be a file ending with the suffix *.torrent. Download the *.torrent file > (it's only small) with your browser. In a terminal, cd to the directory > you downloaded the *.torrent file to and then issue the following > command: > > btdownloadcurses.py <torrentname>.torrent > > replacing <torrentname> with the actual name of the torrent file. Alternatively you can have the BitTorrent client get the torrent file for you: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://www.example.com/xyz.torrent I find it useful to limit the upload rate so that there is still some bandwidth left for mail, web access etc. (I only have a 512/256 kbit DSL line): btdownloadcurses.py --responsefile xya.torrent --max_upload_rate 20 The upload rate is specified in kilobytes per second. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
