Hi, Metalinks might be helpful on Debian's download page for CD/DVD images. You could have a single quick link to your ISOs that contains all the mirror/p2p/checksum info in it.
Metalinks, a cross platform vendor neutral fortmat, are used by download managers & contain Mirror & p2p locations for segmented downloads, along with automatic checksum verification when the download completes. It spreads the download between multiple servers so its faster for users, more reliable, & less load on any one server. Metalinks are backward compatible too. If you're interested, you can try it out with aria2 (Unix command line) (http://aria2.sourceforge.net), Speed Download (Mac) (http://www.yazsoft.com), wxDownload Fast (Mac/Unix/Win), or GetRight (Windows) (http://www.getright.com), then clicking on these samples: http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#isos (There's a metalink for Debian DVD ISOs there). Also, OpenOffice.org uses metalinks to distribute their free office suite at http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html & a few other Linux distributions use it for their ISOs. There's a video of metalink working in GetRight here: http://www.metalinker.org/implementation.html Metalinks are just simple XML like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <metalink version="3.0" generator="Metalink Generator v1.00.0034" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/"> <publisher> <name>debian</name> <url>http://www.debian.org/</url> </publisher> <description>Debian 3.1r2 i386 DVD ISO</description> <files> <file name="debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso"> <version>3.1r2</version> <os>Linux-x86</os> <verification> <hash type="md5">e467b508185f4fdd8e97c9ee76045288</hash> </verification> <resources> <url type="http" location="us" preference="100">http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-dvd/de bian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso</url> <url type="http" location="us" preference="100">http://debian.osuosl.org/debian-cdimage/current/i386/iso-dv d/debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso</url> <url type="http" location="ro" preference="100">http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/ current/i386/iso-dvd/debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso</url> </resources> </file> <files> <file name="debian-31r2-i386-binary-2.iso"> <version>3.1r2</version> <os>Linux-x86</os> <verification> <hash type="md5">34ad0d7a9ff4a44c5cffb6d238ac4b26</hash> </verification> <resources> <url type="http" location="us" preference="100">http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-dvd/de bian-31r2-i386-binary-2.iso</url> <url type="http" location="us" preference="100">http://debian.osuosl.org/debian-cdimage/current/i386/iso-dv d/debian-31r2-i386-binary-2.iso</url> <url type="http" location="ro" preference="100">http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/ current/i386/iso-dvd/debian-31r2-i386-binary-2.iso</url> </resources> </file> </files> </metalink> thanks, Anthony Bryan http://www.metalinker.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]