On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:33:41PM +0800, lito lampitoc wrote:
> anyone using bittorrent here?
Yes, and I successfully downloaded RedHat 9.0 ISOs at the maximum speed
of my DSL link even if RedHat had only been released a few days before.
Quite awesome, IMHO. :)
> running btdownloadgui.py (e.g. ./btdowloadgui.py --url <url>) seems to
> start downloading at 0% forever. Adding the mime type to /etc/mailcap
> and/or to my mozilla setting doesn't work either.
>
> Prior to this, I build an rpm of wxPythonGTK-py2.2-2.4.0.7-1 for my
> RedHat 8.0 and it installs successfully.
>
> Did I miss something?
I never really used the GUI downloader, because I didn't see the need to
install wxPython just to download some ISOs. The curses-based one seemed
to work just fine, and I could run it using screen which would allow me
to log off, go home, and check on it from anywhere.
Make sure that you have a direct connection to the Internet from where
you're downloading, and that you have ports 6881 to 6889 open or
downloading will be dog slow.
Using the link from bitconjurer.org, the following command should work
just fine:
$ btdownloadcurses.py --url http://207.44.142.96/redhat9.torrent
Or with my recommended screen:
$ screen -S redhat9 btdownloadcurses.py --url http://207.44.142.96/redhat9.torrent
You can background a screen task using C-a-d, you can restore it later
using:
$ screen -R redhat9
Happy screened torrenting. ;)
--> Jijo
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