Bittorrent and Download FC3

[Gordon McCague]

This is a good thing to know! I'll give it a shot for my next
download. I have to determine if I am actually using a decent version
of Bittorrent as well. There seems to be a number of them out there.


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:25:35 +0100, Martin Alderson
<martinalderson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apart from that is impossible since BitTorrent checks SHA1 hashes
> every 1MB and also for every file. Either the BitTorrent images are
> faulty or you have burnt them incorrectly.
> 
> BitTorrent will never say file complete if it does not match
> checksums, simple as that.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:17:25 -0700, Gordon McCague <gmccague at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "About the problems ftp'ing FC3 images:  Bittorrent is your
> > friend.  You may not be able to contribute back as much as
> > you downloaded, but every gigabyte of bandwidth helps."
> >
> > I tried Bittorrent first on Linux without success. The disks would not
> > boot correctly. It is certainly possible that I made a mistake in
> > creating the disks but wanted to use tried and true FTP to make sure I
> > had decent files. It appears that the images I received from Limestone
> > are perfect. Now on to the installation!
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