On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Yes, I have done it so many times with quite a few distros, especially > happened 3 times with me when ubuntu was just released. Their servers > are hammered so badly that I get pathetic download speeds. So, after > quitting wget, even though the download is partially finished, I got > hold of the torrent of the same release and pointed it to download at > the same location where the partially downloaded file was. > > Another couple of times I have used it to generate a clean iso out of > sub-standards CD/DVD's supplied by technology magazines. A minor portion of > data was unreadable but majority of the data was very much readable from > the disc. Thus, rather than throwing away the whole disc as useless one > can create an ISO from it using dd or K3B or whatever your favourite > tool is. Obtained the torrent for the same and pointed it to the iso. > The torrent client checked the iso and discarded pieces that didn't match > the checksum. Thus, I only needed to download whatever wasn't readable > from the media.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. -- Manish _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
