Re: A tip for ppl who download big iso files like fedora iso's

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serge de Souza" <serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: A tip for ppl who download big iso files like fedora iso's


> VJ wrote:
> >> VJ wrote:
> >>> bittorrent download for the same iso file but stopped it after some
> >>> kilobytes were downloaded. then I replaced the partial iso file
> >>> downloaded
> >>> by bit torrent with the full iso file I had (but was corrupt). then I
> >>> restarted bit-torrent again and automagically it re-downloaded the
> >>> portion
> >>> of the file that was corrupt. That too in just 3 minutes!!! Saved me
> >>> a lot
> >>> of time. I checked the md5sum after that and it matched the one
> >>> available on
> >>> Fedora's site.
> >>>
> >>>  You too can do it for the iso's of CD's as well, i guess.
> >>>
> >>> Hope it helps somebody.
> >>>
> >>> VJ
> >>>
> >>
> >> Which client were you using ?
> >>
> >>
> >> Serge
> >>
> >
> > I used wget to download the first file.
> >
> > VJ
>
> Ooops I should have specified:
>
> Which *bit torrent* client were you using ?
>
> Serge
>
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I downloaded this Bittorrent software looong time ago. I don't remember
where from, but they are a bunch of python programs (having extension .py).
I guess I downloaded it from the home site of bittorrent itself. I used
'btdownloadcurses.py' from that package.


VJ


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