on 8/30/2007 4:15 PM, Per Anton Ronning wrote: > David Boles wrote: >> on 8/30/2007 1:27 PM, Per Anton Ronning wrote: >> >>> David Boles wrote: >>> >>>> on 8/30/2007 5:00 AM, Per Anton Ronning wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Now I have experienced something odd. I am downloading F7 using >>>>> bittorrent. (It has been predicting about 16-18 hours of download time >>>>> which I guess is acceptable) I have in another thread discussed my >>>>> screen freeze problem, which now may or may not be expanding. >>>>> >>>>> The PC usually freezes after some time of downloading, - well, it >>>>> freezes anyway after some time has elapsed - so it may not necessarily >>>>> be caused by the downloading as such. >>>>> But when I am about to pick up the downloading again, bittorrent-curses >>>>> starts out by checking the cintents of the .iso file which has been >>>>> downloaded so far. After a very short while the whole thing stops, and >>>>> reboot is the only option. This has happened 3 times in a row. >>>>> Does anyone have suggestions here? It may be the "old" problem of >>>>> course, but could this be some disk problem as well? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> works best from level 3 but it will work in a terminal >>>> >>>> cd /where_you_want_the_iso_to_ go >>>> >>>> - all on one line- (this might line wrap) >>>> >>>> wget -c >>>> ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso >>>> >>>> >>>> the -c will permit restarts if your machine crashes of you are disconnected. >>>> >>>> >>> Teh wget part is already completed, I am now running the >>> bittorent_curses part. >>> >> >> I am confused by what you wrote. As I understand it you downloads the iso >> with wget and now you are downloading the same iso with bittorent? >> >> If that is what you are doing I just have to ask why are you downloading >> the same iso twice? >> >> > That is not what I am doing. > First i did run wget > http://torrent.fedora.project.org/torrents/Fedora-7-i386.torrent > Then I am running > bittorrent-curses Fedora-7-i386.torrent > and now F-7-i386-DVD.iso is created. I have so far downloaded > 363,593,728 bytes of this file, but now the problem I describe is > putting a stop to further downloading. > When I start the *-curses again, it begins with examining the *.iso > file, but at an early stage of this examination the computer simply > shuts down, i.e. it freezes. > It seems that it calculates how far the download has come so far in > order to continue the download from that point on, i.e, it has a > built-in -c option. At least that is my interpretation of this. > > Is the confusion brought into order? :-) Yes. Now. You used wget to download the torrent link and then began a torrent to download the iso. Every time you restart a bittorent it will check what has been downloaded to find two things. What parts have already been downloaded and if they are good parts. Bittorent downloads parts from many sources. File sharing. For bittorent to work well it has to be configured. You have to open a port, set downloads speed to unlimited and, depending on your Internet connection, cut down the upload speed. 10 is a good place to start. Also some ISPs throttle back bittorent because it is manly used to steal commercial program and movies. The link that I gave to you would directly download the iso from a very fast site at The university of Southern California without using the bittorent application at all. I do not know what your Internet connection speed is but with mine, 800 - 1000 mbps, it would take about 40 minutes, maybe less, to download the DVD iso of Fedora 7. Good luck. You will like Fedora 7. And just think. Fedora 8 is scheduled for early November. :-) -- David
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