Howto download Mepis Linux 2003.10.01 using Bit Torrent

Submitted by shoegoo on Fri, 12/05/2003 - 01:33.

Bit Torrent is a great tool for ad-hoc downloading of a file that is in demand. I have set up a torrent for the latest release of Mepis (2003.10.01) since the mirrors are still getting the new iso, and they are usually rather slow when everyone is trying to download after the initial release of a new version. If you have experience with Bit Torrent, the torrent links are here and the alternate link is here

Linux Users Howto

First you need the Bit Torrent client (included with Mepis). If you are running a Debian based distribution simply type

apt-get install bittorrent

. If you are running a distro that is not Debian based, obtain the right package for your distribution here. Once the package is installed, download the .torrent file (in this case metainfo.torrent) from one of the above links. If your browser does not suggest opening the file with btdownloadgui save it to your home directory. Click the "K" menu and click "Run command". In the box type

btdownloadgui /home/yourusername/metainfo.torrent

. If the browser does ask if you want to open it with btdownloadgui say yes. Once this is done, choose a place to save the file and you should begin downloading!

Windows Users Howto

Download the Bit Torrent client for Windows here. Double click the .exe file and install Bit Torrent. Once it is installed, go to one of the torrent links above in your browser. It should prompt you to open the file with Bit Torrent. Say open, choose a place to save, and you should be downloading.

For more information on Bit Torrent check here.

-Garrett

Digg it:

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Also, install the recommended

Submitted by hard candy on Fri, 12/05/2003 - 20:19.
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Also, install the recommended file libwxgtk2.4-python.
There must not be a lot of people downloading, I'm showing 23 hours, 39 minutes. I'll have it by Sunday!
Augusta, GA
"People get ready, there's a train acoming"- Curtis Mayfield

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BT rules!

Submitted by baldyeti on Sat, 12/06/2003 - 07:14.
Posts: 35

Worked perfectly here, I had the ISO in about 3hrs!
My 1st ever torrent download, btw, using azureus.

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Alt link 404's

Submitted by Dave_Bechtel on Sat, 12/06/2003 - 15:03.
Posts: 481

The http://shoegoo.homelinux.org:6881/metainfo.torrent link is giving a 404 now. (2003-12-06 1pm CST)

The " http://www.whatsinyourbox.org/metainfo.torrent " link still works.

http://wolfrdr.tripod.com/linuxtips.html

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Yes, I had to take the shoego

Submitted by shoegoo on Sun, 12/07/2003 - 13:22.
Posts: 22

Yes, I had to take the shoegoo.homelinux.org torrent link down since I am also sending the iso, it was eating too much bandwidth and some people were having trouble connecting, sorry for the inconvinience.

-Garrett
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www.whatsinyourbox.org

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Torrent on PCLO

Submitted by shoegoo on Wed, 12/10/2003 - 03:12.
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I submitted the torrent to PCLinuxOnline, and they published it here.
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www.whatsinyourbox.org

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Tracker?

Submitted by Dave_Bechtel on Wed, 12/10/2003 - 23:29.
Posts: 481

--Any chance of getting a tracker up, such as this one?
http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969/

http://wolfrdr.tripod.com/linuxtips.html

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I am working on setting up a

Submitted by shoegoo on Thu, 12/11/2003 - 00:54.
Posts: 22

I am working on setting up a better tracker. I don't know PHP, so it wont be anything real customized. If anyone wants to code a special tracker, I'd be willing to host it here, I dont have space to keep the ISO's forever though.
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www.whatsinyourbox.org

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apt-get install bittorrent -Done

Submitted by justins on Sun, 01/11/2004 - 11:10.
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Now? Now I rebooted (Actully shut this off, went to bed, and clicked it back on this morning), clicked a .torrent file, saved it to a known folder, navigated to that folder, right click, open with, btdownloadgui and nothing found .. what gives? It's installaded, I did a whereis bittorrent and nothing came up, but I did a find in the find file and only one thing turned up :/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/BitTorrent

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? I'd like to snag a new copy O' Mepis, I scratched my cd and can't find the iso (Prolly lost on my server).

Thanks,
Justin

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BT (bittorrent) script

Submitted by Dave_Bechtel on Mon, 01/12/2004 - 06:49.
Posts: 481

Don't forget to chmod +x it, and chown 700 ; suggested location is /usr/local/bin

BEGIN btor
#!/bin/bash

#export ftp_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:3128/
#export http_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:3128/

# BitTorrent download
time btdownloadcurses --url $* \
--max_uploads 2 \
--rerequest_interval 240 \
--display_interval 3 \
--max_upload_rate 32
### END

--To use, copy the .torrent link and paste into command line: ' btor http://www.whatsinyourbox.org/metainfo.torrent '

--BTW, I know for a fact that the 2nd torrent link he specified is dead. Try the 1st link as described above. This script currently needs to be run on the dsl/broadband connected box, you will probably need to open up BT-related ports in your firewall ((
# Allow BitTorrent connections
# xxx 2003.1012 modified for only 3 ports (was 6881:6889)
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 -i ppp0 --dport 6881:6883 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 -i ppp0 --dport 6969 -j ACCEPT
))

http://wolfrdr.tripod.com/linuxtips.html

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