-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 16, 2004 01:54 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Hello all, > I'd like some comments here: > I'm a silver Mdk club member so I downloaded CD4-5 using bittorrent but I > prefer using rsync on a mirror on my previous (rc1) iso's.
Do that, then start the Club torrent. Stop the torrent after it sets the directory and file structure for the ISOs. Move the synced disks to that directory overwriting the empty ISOs that are there, then restart the torrent. It will check the disks, download any not present while uploading the ones already there. BTW the average "wrote" difference that I've seen using rsync this way has been about 350 KB. Not many bites compared to a full download, is it? > I have this gut feeling that there will be no mention of CD4 and 5 on CD1 > on the download CD's meaning I'd have to add them later as a source. You're probably right but since I cheat try what I posted above. It should work, I almost always copy ISOs to a torrent directory and start it uploading since I have a complete mirror locally, including the download ISOs. > Better still would be to get the right HD lists from the powerpack CD's and > put those in the .iso. Since that is probably almost the extent of the differences between the two you still save time and bandwidth, plus learn something HarM. Which is the whole point anyway, isn't it? <g> > Until now I can only find those CD's as .torrents on club but I don't want > to download the whole shebang again. See above. > So here's the questions: > > 1)Are there other sources (yet) for those hdlists then those .torrent > files? 2)Does the powerpack CD1 indeed have the hdlists for 4 and 5? > 3)Do the hdlists for 1-3 differ (i.e. the RPMS available) between the > powerpack and download edition? Since it's still based on the "Community Edition" release at present things will change again when Final is released in about 8 weeks HarM. Once you have the ISOs you'll probably be able to do it all over again. > 4)Or is there a way to get bittorrent to only get the /base directory from > CD1? Browse to a server with a cooker mirror. The hdlists and all the rest of the contents of the /base directory are there. Won't help though, you're looking for disks 4 and 5, they ain't there. I just looked at my local mirror. The Power Pack CompssUser file is there though. > Thanks a lot, > HarM Bit Torrent seems to download one disk at a time by default anyway HarM. If my suspicion is correct and it uses a form of rsync for it's "checking" phase you should still save bandwidth by using the suggestions I posted above. I'd have to know a lot more about BT before I could say with confidence, but it seems likely from observations of torrents for the last 5 or 6 releases through Cooker. Let me know whether I've steered you wrong? Warm regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org senility, n.: The state of mind of elderly persons with whom one happens to disagree. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVz11ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqrkAKCMJPIveSyAlDATXJT8Yj8PzCfJ9gCcD5dz 8bErWdp/iMKtAJiySekPi1U= =Fwbh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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