-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 15, 2004 10:29 am, Fajar PRiyanto wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm trying bittorrent. Can it be used on dial up machine like mine? > I've installed it, but really confused of what I do next. > How do I begin to use it? > Thanks, > Fajar.
Hello Fajar; For small files yes, no trouble. For stuff such as Mandrake 10 Community Edition....weeeellllll.... not so much. (-: Just how long do you plan to live my friend? Theoretically you could use bit torrent on a dial up connection; but remember the size of the (for example) complete torrent for Mandrake 10 Community. 2.0 Giga Bytes. How long do you think that would take at a (theoretical) maximum download speed of 5 KB per second? On the other hand you can achieve the same effect (having the ISOs) using rsync instead, and with less pain involved. If you still have the ISOs from a previous version just copy and rename them to what you see here: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/iso or here: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/iso Then open a terminal and run rsync against a mirror that supports it. The following is the command I use as me, not root. Change the directory path (the part after the space between /Mandrake/iso/ and /archive/backup and so on) to suit your own local environment: rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude MandrakeMove-i586.iso ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ /archive/backup/nanook/downloads/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community/ That's all one line. The reason the --exclude flag is in there is probably obvious, you don't need MandrakeMove. Or the md5sum.asc for it but I'm leaving the reader something to do for themselves. <g> The reason(s) for using rsync instead of anything else are IMHO: you only actually download the differences between the files, so less (much) bandwidth and less (much) time involved; it's one way, download only. Sort of anyway, rsync reads everything on both ends but only downloads what's required to synchronize the directories. Rather than upload and download as with bit torrent. Again less bandwidth; Less chance of file corruption due to restarts. Maybe. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Ever feel like life was a game and you had the wrong instruction book? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVh+mZqvqlrLPr5YRAlyiAJ9Z0bTfgnjZxYm9jjwvwwsO0HfHvACePD7F aO+AqWEeiuB5Kx0yVkKJ9HM= =MDSl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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