Want to share FC6 DVD iso using bittorrent

Jay Cliburn jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 25 02:46:00 UTC 2006


Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 9:03 PM -0500 10/24/06, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>> I have an FC6 DVD iso that I downloaded from a mirror today.  I'd like to make
>> it available to bittorrent, but I know almost nothing about, um, torrenting.
>> I've installed bittorrent on my server and I've opened ports 6881-6999.  I
>> went
>> to bittorrent.com, but couldn't quickly find the instructions to do what I'm
>> trying to do.  Can someone provide a quick howto?
> 
> Not me, but the README file for bittorrent
> (/usr/share/doc/bittorrent*/README.txt) says how to set up for serving.
> However, I think you want to set up for peering with the regular torrent as
> if you got the DVD via the torrent; that might be done by 1) starting to
> fetch the torrent, 2) stopping, 3) replace the file in ZOD with your
> complete file, and 4) restarting.  Umm, this is a guess.

Yes, I want to be a peer.  Thanks for discerning that.

What goes in the SHA1SUM file?  A single line containing the sha1sum of the iso 
file?




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