John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:05:31 +0000 > Tixy <debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk> dijo: > >> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 22:07 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> I want a TORRENT that I can download with a bittorrent client like >>> Transmission. I don't want a jigdo, whatever that is. And I want a >>> bootable CD image that will continue the installation over the >>> internet. That is INTERNET, not a local network. >> The Swedish mirror I get directed to from the UK just now, maxes out my >> 8Mb/s ADSL line and I downloaded the netinst CD in less than 4 minutes. >> Why don't you try that? >> >> http://laotzu.acc.umu.se/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > > Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, while it may be very fast > from your side of the world, it is painfully slow from the west coast > of the United States. > >> I note that the time between your first post saying your download was >> too slow, and your last post about trying to get a torrent was five >> hours. In that time, the 148MB iso could have downloaded even if the >> rate was 8kB/s. > > The rate I was getting was about 4K/s. Yes, I could wait a couple days > for it to finish. What I want is a TORRENT. I keep saying that in this > thread, but apparently a torrent does not exist. At least, no one has > been able to tell me where to find one. The idea of a torrent is that > it saves the sender (Debian) bandwidth. > >
Yes thank for for the run down of how Bit Torrent works! Have you even searched around on any torrent sites? I found two torrents for debian testing in a 5 second search one one torrent site... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
