On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:48, Shawn Grover wrote: > So, if I'm an end user, I go to a site and click the link to begin > downloading. Under the hood, the file is actually coming from multiple > locations? Or would I need to setup bittorrent myself to be able to > download?
There's a number of ways to set up Bittorrent once you have it installed. You can setup your web browser to launch the BT client with the url, so that it will start downloading when you click the link. I could not get that to work, so I do one of two things. I either download the .torrent file and launch bt passing off the location of the file, or I copy the url to the file and launch bt with the --url flag. bt has both a gui and a curses interface so that you can run it with or without X. They both work very well. > I can see that I was misinterpreting things (it was late when I read the > FAQ). But I'm still not quite connecting how the whole system would work. > This is probably a case where I need to do it before I understand it > properly. I'll look at getting things set up on my server later tonight > (now that I've been able to do a backup). There's more info. on the Bittorrent website including pictures. I would suggest installing the client on your workstation and taking it for a spin. You can get many things off bittorrent, and most can be found on the web or on irc. This includes movies, distros. etc. Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT
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