On Tuesday 23 January 2007 07:48, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 12:45 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > You could also boot CD1 (aren't CD-RW great) and proceed to the stage > > where it offers a media check, and run that, but I'd say your torrent > > needs work. > > Good idea - and guess what - CD1 is no good > > I wonder if it matters that all five CD's have not finished downloading > yet. Of course it does!
> I saw that the file size was correct and assumed that CD's 1,2,3 & 4 > were done already. The bittorrent protocol pre-allocates disk space and then puts your data in that space. Early versions used to reserve all the disk blocks needed at the start of running the program. I believe current versions reserve disk space chunk by chunk. Thus you are probably near the start of getting the last block. -- CS
