I have yet to find out my answers on how this bit torrent works?

Do you have to have a suse version before you can get a newer suse version as I have been trying to get bit torrent to work on Mandrake 10.1 and 10.2 and I'am loath to load up an older suse version in order to try a newer version.

Anyone, loaded 9.3 with bit torrent on a Mandrake machine?

can you explain this a little clearer please? you have a torrent file for suse 9.3? (Is that legal? i lose track...) you would be able to download it from an bittorrent client, it's not possible to check what you're already running. You've not actually explained what is actaully not working though... i'd suggest you check the bittorrent docs, or maybe try another client, like azureus.

Yes it is legal, although I can't help with Mandrake.

Well, actually I downloaded SuSE9.3 from BT and installed on my Mandrake10.1 box. Im pretty sure Suse doesn't care what was installed before though

it's just a torrent, running on a standard client.... there's no way to know what dsitro's running

barrythai: Although I am a puzzled as the others, I assume you would like to know wheter the download you get on BitTorrent is an update that requires a previous version to be installed or a full version. To answer this: SUSE does always distribute full versions. You'll never need a previous version installed. Sometimes SUSE distros are named 'Update', but that refers ony to a reduced price for owners of a previous version.

No I was just wanting to know how to load an iso of 9.3 from BT using Mandrake 10.1 burning the discs and using those discs to load a new fresh machine.

I can't understand the BT website nor how the system works and wanted a simple explanation of the steps to take. of the steps
up to the point of having the iso's on a mandrake machine.

I guess this is a Suse thing as I have not seen this BT mentioned with other distro's.

you use bittorrent to get a file... burning that file to a cd is nothing whatsoever to do with bitorrent. it's just a normal iso file. if you don't know what to do with an iso file, check the LinuxAnswer here in our howto section, or linuxiso.org

But the license question is very relevant. Doesn't SuSE Professional ship with proprietary drivers and other software? In that case, is it still OK to distribute it?

This discussion lasts for a long time already, always with a little fuzzy result (in my opinion). The licence text on the CD set says that the individual licence of each commercial product on the CD has to be reviewed if its distribution is permitted or not. SUSE is not very eager to inform us whether there is a product that does not allow free distribution (somehow understandable), so you'll need to find this out by yourself. In general, distribution is allowed as long as you don't charge money (or any other type of compensation) for it.

barrythai: I think azureus for example (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) is a Java-based BitTorrent client, so it will run on Mandrake as well.

Ok its an application called bittorrent, I tried to load it on Mandrake 10.1 but couldn't find out to execute the application.

Then why should I need an app to download an iso when ftp or browsers such as Konqueror will download an iso, this is the bit that I find confusing?

then also since I assume you must have BT to do this,

If you can tell me how to get this app' - does it have an rpm- and how to run it on Mandrake 10.1?

Thanks for anticipated help.

Bittorrent works differently. If you use a browser, for instance, to download from a HTTP or FTP server, the burden on the server is very great. Fedora Core 4 has just been released, and I can only assume that their servers are close to melting right now.
Enter Bittorrent. It is like a p2p program - you don't download from a server, you download from others who have the file or part of the file. With a popular download, the download becomes slower or inaccessible from a server - but if you are using Bittorrent the speed should be reasonable, given that a lot of people have the file or parts of it. If someone has downloaded half of a file, for instance, he can start uploading that half to others who don't have that part of the file. It is much more network-oriented and is better for distribution of very popular files.

Novell have stated that 9.3 can be distributed freely so long as you dont profit from it

If you've downloaded BitTorrent, you dont actually have to install it, just unpack it. Then go to the suse torrent file, right click and select "open with" then navigate to your unpacked BitTorrent directory and choose to open with the "btdownloadgui.py" file, a save dialogue will appear to ask you where you want to save the ISO (make sure you have enough room there remember its about 8 GB) select your save location and it should start downloading

enjoy

ps - make sure you have python installed