Easy, Breezy, Beautiful...Slackware!
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Heres a quickie guide for downloading 10.1 via torrents: 1- Download CTorrent wget http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ctorrent/ctorrent-1.3.2.tar.gz 2- Install CTorrent tar -zxf ctorrent-1.3.2.tar.gz ; cd ctorrent-1.3.2 ; ./configure ; make ; su -c "make install" 3- Find your internal IP run /sbin/ifconfig and write down your internal IP address. 4- Configure your router/firewall Log into your router (should be your gateway IP, such as 192.168.0.1 or possibly 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1) Next look for port fowarding or a gaming section on some Linksys routers. Enter port 2706 in the port textbox and your IP in the IP textbox. *CTorrent uses port 2706 by default* 5- Run CTorrent with your .torrent file Get into your directory which has your torrent (I'll assume it is slack.torrent) and issue the following command: ctorrent slack.torrent And your set! Don't forget to buy it online to show support & and it's always good to have a backup :D --Gian |
I installed it but it couldn't find my network card and x wouldn't work but my LS Audigy LS worked right out of the box I just had to set the mixer settings.
so if I have no nic card that works it's pointless! |
Well I reinstalled and everything works now. Just setting everything up
:) |
Re: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful...Slackware!
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ftp.gwdg.de
/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-10.1-iso average speed 300kb/s |
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CTorrent - Interpretting the output
Excerpts from the CTorrent faq.
How do I check status of my download? 2004-02-01 04:27:56 Once CTorrent starts to download, all you will see is 1 line of status. It's kind of hard to interpret what all the numbers mean, so here's an example: 10, [0/334/331], 6070,9845, | 5004,3984 E:3 10 - Number of connected peers (other people who have the file you are downloading) 0/334/331 - Downloaded/Total/Available pieces of the file. All pieces may not be availabe at all times since peers go offline. 6070,9845 - Average downloadspeed (in bytes/s), Average uploadspeed (in bytes/s) 5004,3984 - Current downloadspeed (in bytes/s), Current uploadspeed (in bytes/s) E:3 - The tracker has refused connections 3 times. CTorrent allocates space for a file downloading it. In your case the download didn't complete and that is the reason why you couldn't cat the md5 checksum file. More information on CTorrent can be found at Getting Startedhttp://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/?action=started FAQ -http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/?action=faq Hope thats helpful. |
Chinaman,
subzero is correct. On the last line (the status line) when you issued: ctorrent slack.torrent that 0 has to reach 2536. [0/2536/2536] means the entire file is in 2,536 pieces and you have access to download 2,536 pieces but you have download 0 pieces so far. Just issue that command and it should be done in the morning. Good luck! --Gian |
subzero_ice,
Thanks for the links! I never thought to go there... Gian, My torrent never got above those few KB/s so I d/led the CD ISOs with gftp and am now getting the DVD ISO the same way (at ~ 82KB/s). Not what you'd expect from a 2Mbps ADSL line. :/ Thanks for the information. I'll try to use Ctorrent some more for downloads, since I never get any good rates from my stinking ISP here. Is there a way that I could seed this torrent for others? The only way I know is to keep that connection open, but since I've already got all the images, I don't want to use my bandwidth d/ling them again. Thanks! And also for the good CTorrent HOW-TO! |
Seed torrent when downloading via FTP
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1- Check if file exists (As to double-check the files are the same) ctorrent -c slack.torrent If everything goes well: 2- Seed file ctorrent -s slack.torrent Well, I just checked your previous post and your torrent created one directory and should if run, download an .iso, .md5 and .asc. In your case, just delete those files it allocated and replace them with the iso, md5 and asc you downloaded via FTP (make sure the filename are the same!) and rerun the "ctorrent slack.iso". CTorrent will scan the files and know that they have been downloaded already and then will seed it for you automatically (for 72 hours... use "-s" option for unlimited hours of seeding). You can also just run "ctorrent" for a list of other useful options to use with ctorrent. Hope this helps, --Gian |
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