On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-07-05 16:17:11]: > > > Hmmm, so the mirrors are unreliable? > > > > We should get rid of the "run freenet-webinstall" in linux, very few > > linuxers have their browser set up to handle .JNLP's...? > > > > It's going to change "soon" as sun's jvm is now redistribuable.
Getting a sun java package into debian will take a considerable time; it will at the very least have to wait for etch to ship. > > NextGen$ > > > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:59:54PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devl mailing list > > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > > > > > -- > > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060705/88de032d/attachment.pgp>
