> Matthew Toseland <toad at ...> writes: >> 1. Most people who reach the downloads page apparently don't download >> the installer. >> - Is there a technical problem? >> - Is it simply that the installer is cached by web proxies?
I'm a long-time freenet follower but I haven't run a node in at least a couple of years. Now that 0.7 is here and working I have decided to give it a try. I am a Linux user. The first option on the download page is to download freenet-webinstall. So I click on that and I am offered a file called freenet.jnlp. What is this? I have no idea what to do with it. The next option is to run javaws http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/freenet.jnlp but I do not have a javaws command in my jre 1.5.0_06 from Sun. So the next option is: % java -jar http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/selfextractpack.jar But I get the error: Unable to access jarfile http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/selfextractpack.jar So I wget the selfextractpack.jar and do java selfextractpack.jar and then the install proceeds normally. Very slick and easy installer! Much better than last time I ran freenet. >> 2. A lot of people are downloading Freenet 0.7 >> >> 3. Very few of them are seeking references on #freenet-refs. Well, I just visited #freenet-refs and although there are 40 people in the channel nobody is talking and nobody seems interested in my noderef. Granted, it is the evening of 4th of July in the US but I would expect at least a few foreign freenetters to be available to exchange noderefs with. I asked in #freenet also and although there are a couple of people talking there they are not interested in exchanging noderefs and just pointed me to the silent #freenet-refs. If anyone here wants to send my their noderef mine can be found at: http://dark-code.bulix.org/1cry7p-9685 Also, is there a text based installer available? I have a headless machine at a colo that I would like to run a node on. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org
