Bittorrent and Download FC3

[Alan]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:21, Gordon McCague wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it is the burning software. I'm using the command line
> cdrecord now with some success. I will also confirm the MD5sum next
> time.

What command line options are you using?

I have tried getting it to work on my dvd burner and I get an odd scsi
error and a message about not being able to open another session.
Growisofs burns a little bit and then stops.

> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:19:41 -0700 (PDT), alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > 
> > > Bittorrent has always worked for me. I haven't used it lately because I
> > > need to change my firewall code to point to a different destination
> > > machine for the Bittorrent ports, but when I've used it in the past, it
> > > has been great. I want
> > >
> > > It is most likely that you made a mistake in burning your CDs. I think
> > > most everyone has. I've tossed my fair share of bad CDs too.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 20:17, Gordon McCague 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!
> > 
> > 
> > I have used bittorrent for every FC iso I have downloaded.  (Which has
> > been more than five so far.)
> > 
> > I have yet to get a bad iso. Every one I have downloaded has had an MD5sum
> > file to verify the iso before burning.
> > 
> >   md5sum -c MD5SUM
> > 
> > is your friend.
> > 
> > It may be your burning software or some other factor.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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