akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I know pwoplw use bittorrent so there must be somewhere that explains > how to use it clearly enough for someone starting out to understand , > but I can't find it. > > The rpm README.txt says there is a INSTALL.unix.txt that explains > things but no file with that name exists. The bittorent home site is > really aimes at Windows user. Every time I read the README.txt file I > almost see the picture but then I loose it. > oTwo strting questions which bug me: > 1. metainfo files seem to be created using btmakemetafile.py and these > create .torrent files tha have meta information on another file. Is > tha right? What kind of files are metainfo files made on? > 2. How do you find where the other trackers are? > > > > Maybe these answers are obvious but not to me at this point. I too didn't understand it until the other day, when I was able to understand and download knoppix via BitTorrent - so I wrote out the method and how to do it in my blog 'A taste of Linux' [see the sig below for the url]. I hope this helps you out and explains how I used it successfully. Take care Sharon. -- 17:42:35 up 18:26, 1 user, load average: 1.97, 1.73, 1.43 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.1-4.2.3, OpenOffice 1.1.3 Registered Linux user 334501
