I've been wanting to try a fedora 6 unity livecd but it seems the only way to get them is via bittorrent.
Are there no isos available anywhere?
I've been trying to download one through bittorrent, ktorrent and azureus but the highest speed I've managed is 1.9kb/s on an 8 meg connection.
I have never had much to do with bittorrent and I suspect my router is causing some of the problems but even if I set a rule in the router to allow traffic to the bittorrent port it doesn't get any better and I don't want to mess with the settings for the sake of one download.
I downloaded the "proper" fedora cds but found there were faults on every single one, according to anaconda's medium test.
They were burned at low speeds and I have since burned a couple of other distros to the same cds and they are working fine with no faults. I checked the SHA1SUM on every fedora cd and they all matched.
I don't intend downloading them again.

I would check and see if there is a LUG-Linux User Group in your area and have a member d'load and burn an image for you. I hate slow connections too. Do you have access to a school or library to get a better connection?

Strange that you were unable to get the Fedora discs to pass the integrity test after verifying the sha1sums for the iso's were correct. I have burned .iso's that have passed the md5sum or sha1sum check and skipped the media check when installing and all went well.

Thanks I will look into it.
I read that I only need the first 2 discs for the default install so I decided to download them again.
I downloaded from a different source, burned them to discs from a different pack, verified the sha1sum on both and tried installing again. I also burned it from a different distro, suse (I used kanotix before).
This time I was sure there would be no problem. The install started well til it asked for the second disc, it then complained that some openoffice rpm was missing or the disc was corrupted.
So I tried the medium test again and first disc passed, as expected but the second disc reported a fault again!!!

WOW! I finally got 2 working discs and I wish I hadn't gone to all that trouble.
I have never used a distro that has so many issues with my hardware.
Hardly anything works and it won't even boot into X.
I've done some messing around and got some things working but I but if I'm having this much trouble from the start, it doesn't bode well.
Think I'll stick to 32bit, 64bit distros just don't seem to like my computer.