On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:56:22 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday October 16 2003 11:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > As I started off with, this bittorBS is new to me, never > > > been a fan of p2p anyhow. There's a growin consensus of docs, > > > FAQ's, an smart BT people tho. Use the list archives, cooker, > > > expert, an newbie, Club links, plus Google for people smarter > > > than me. > > > > So I have finally given up, I will wait till the durn thing is > > on the regular mirrors. I never was able to connect to a tracker > > and found nothing to help or even mention my problem on the mail > > lists or forums. Not a big deal, I have 9.2 cooker running on > > another machine, I don't know how to make a set of disks from > > that, or I would to upgrade the other two machines. But they all > > run without a problem so why am I in such a hurry to have the > > latest and greatest? Call me "he who could not track down a > > tracker" : ) -- > > When BT froze (not BT's fault), I rebooted to change some bios > settings for the ram. I've since learned why BT wouldn't start up > again after I rebooted. My connection is dynamic, and my IP had > changed when I reconnected. > > You need to d/l a new mytorrent-<userID>.torrent file every > time > your IP changes. Otherwise you'll get that 'can't connect to > tracker' error. Somehow I missed that instruction, but luckily > d/l'd a new torrent file on a hunch ;) > > AFAIK, to make your own CD's you need to d/l the entire 9.2 > tree > and use 'mkcd' to create CD's from it, specifying size (650, 700 > mb). You'll need to look for and study any docs you can find. > I've never done it. Probly be easier to make a floppy image and > do a ftp install. Tho I've never done that either ;) > > Just another comment: Over 4,400 people have gotten the > complete > iso's, but only 318 are currently still online to upload them to > others. That's not very nice. Seems a lot of people got theirs > and then selfishly disconnected. The torrent idea depends on > people staying online .... specially after they're d/l is > complete. > http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > We stayed up for 24hrs but it was slowing down my office connection to the point where I had to shut it off this morning. How do I turn it back on for uploads over the weekend? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
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