[newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I joined Mandrake Club and as part of the bennies tried to download the Power CD's I got a bit torrent file which isn't an rpm or a sh executable and cant be read with less. Does anyone know what I should do with it or what it is? -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-13 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:05:34 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I joined Mandrake Club and as part of the bennies tried to download the Power CD's I got a bit torrent file which isn't an rpm or a sh executable and cant be read with less.

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-13 Thread jimmy
bit torrent is a protocol like ftp to transfer file. it used peer to peer connection. So you have to first download and install bit torrent program which will download CD images automatically using the mirror information in the bittorrent file that you got. Read this page to know where to get

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 08 March 2004 02:25 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: 36hrs? Still seems like a very broken way of  distributing files. My torrent is still open. I don't know what I'm helping to do since the files I downloaded are zero bytes in size. Mine has been open for 56 hours and I have got

[newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-07 Thread Rich and Cheryl Swanson
Ok, I paid my 60 bucks to join the club. My bit torrent client says I downloaded 2085 megs in two files. One file is 256k and the other is 0k. Easy CD creator finds three .iso files of 0k. What did I download and where are they? Is there an ftp site where these iso's can be found? Bit torrent is

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-07 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Rich and Cheryl Swanson wrote: Ok, I paid my 60 bucks to join the club. My bit torrent client says I downloaded 2085 megs in two files. One file is 256k and the other is 0k. Easy CD creator finds three .iso files of 0k. What did I download and where are they? Is there an ftp site where these

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 12:14:19 -0600 Rich and Cheryl Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I paid my 60 bucks to join the club. My bit torrent client says I downloaded 2085 megs in two files. One file is 256k and the other is 0k. Easy CD creator finds three .iso files of 0k. What did I download

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-07 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 12:14:19 -0600 Rich and Cheryl Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I paid my 60 bucks to join the club. My bit torrent client says I downloaded 2085 megs in two files. One file is 256k and the other is 0k. Easy CD creator finds three .iso files of 0k. What

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-07 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
36hrs? Still seems like a very broken way of distributing files. My torrent is still open. I don't know what I'm helping to do since the files I downloaded are zero bytes in size. Mine has been open for 56 hours and I have got 700M so far. Even with the upload throttled right back I am

[newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES) untarred BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 then i added application/x-bittorrent; /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/BitTorrent-3.3/btdownloadgui.py %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 2:27 pm, Martin Brandt wrote: Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES) untarred BitTorrent-3.3.tar.bz2 then i added application/x-bittorrent;

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:27:14 +, Martin Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Bit Torrent installation: Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2 for Mozilla 1.5. extracted the files (to /usr/src/RPM

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:45:57 + On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 2:27 pm, Martin Brandt wrote: Im trying to install Bit Torrent (bittorrent-3.3-3mdk.src.rpm) on mandrake 9.2

Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Brandt
Thanks a lot i didnt read your last post before i posted again. Im fine using it with Konqueror. Thanks everyone for your help From: Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bit Torrent installation Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:42:41