Volodya <Volodya at ...> writes: > > I'm trying to help a friend of mine to set up a freenet node (the fact that i'm doing it > over the Yahoo chat doesn't help much). At first we tried to skip the > download of seednodes.ref file during the install, and use mine instead. > For some reason that didn't work (0 connections), so i thought ok, let's > try going through Imprort New Node Ref -> Download References, > however at that time "NODECO-1" error comes up saying "Error while > retrieving the seed file!". I cannot find any information on what that > Nodeco thing is. > Any help?
It's NodeConfig.exe, for some reason being shown as a DOS style 8+3 virtual LFN i.e. NodeCo~1.exe. Some users have reported problems with the installer recently, because Sourceforge have started throttling big downloads in what appears to be a poorly thought out fashion. Also the winstaller currently downloads the uncompressed seendnodes rather than one of the much smaller compressed versions, which doesn't help. Until these issues get fixed your best bet in case of problems is to manually download compressed seednodes from the snapshots, e.g. http://www.freenetproject.org/snapshots/seednodes.zip. This can be unzipped into the main freenet directory (where freenet.jar and various other things are) if the install is basically complete other than missing seednodes, though they may need to manually run NodeConfig.exe to set up a freenet.ini. Alternatively I believe you can put the uncompressed seednodes in the same directory as the webinstaller exe (there should be other temporary files in there) then re-run the installer, and it will notice some seednodes are already present and not try to download them. If the second way works it's probably better. Bob
