Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine? I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the DVD? Thanks, great effort CentOS Team. Jerry
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. > > What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine? > > I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the DVD? > > Thanks, great effort CentOS Team. > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >you need a bittorrent client to grab the DVD try: yum install azureus after that open the .torrent file using azureus and start downloading it, then when you finish burn it on a DVD and boot from it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080624/5e477412/attachment-0002.html>
Jerry Geis wrote:> Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. > > What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine? > > I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the > DVD?you need a torrent application, such as ctorrent or rtorrent for linux, or utorrent for windows, and you need an open port from outside, almost any high port will do (if you are behind a NAT firewall, 'forward' this port to the torrent machine, and configure the torrent program to use that same port). then; feed the torrent program the .torrent file, and kick back and let it work. its good manners to let the torrent 'seed' at least twice the size of the torrent before shutting it down. if your bandwidth is highly asymmetric (like ADSL or Cable), configure the torrent program to limit its outbound to about 80% of your connections total outbound capacity, and this will hugely smooth things (torrent has a habit of jamming pipes so hard you can't get anything else done).
I used Azureus. Worked fine. The image'll be used for new installs, for already installed machines yum update works faster. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Geis Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:58 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: [CentOS] bittorrent Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine? I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the DVD? Thanks, great effort CentOS Team. Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080624/b734873e/attachment-0002.bin>
Jerry Geis wrote:> Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. > > What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine? > > I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the > DVD?You can download the dvd-iso (http/ftp) from a mirror-site. Have a look at: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 Regards Lars
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:58 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:> Looks the only way now to grab a DVD is by torrent. > > What is the yum install XXXX name to get it on the machine?I use the rtorrent from rpmforge. Enable that repo and then yum install rtorrent. It's a lean, mean CLI machine! :-) AND HURRY UP! My new "fat" pipe (potential 1.25MB/sec) has finally edged up to 85.5KB/sec. I need the help folks! ;-)> > I have downloaded the torrent file, but what do I execute to grab the DVD? > > Thanks, great effort CentOS Team.Ditto. BTW: here's a rtorrent command line if you decide on it. #!/bin/bash export SD=~/../shared/CentOS cd $SD rtorrent \ -s $SD \ -o check_hash=no,key_layout=qwerty \ -o peer_exchange=yes,dht=on \ *.torrent The "peer_ex..." is useless here as this is not a private torrent. You can drop it. Also, if you don't have multiple torrents, the last line is OK. Otherwise you can drop it and use <ALT><Backspace> with tab completion to selectively enable the ones you want to process.> > Jerry > <snip sig stuff>Happy torrenting! HTH -- Bill