[ale] NewbieQ: How do I start using BitTorrent?

[da Black Baron]

I prefer: /usr/bin/btdownloadheadless
"http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-9.1-install-d1.torrent" 

;-)



On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 22:30, James Sumners wrote:
> `/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py --url "http://www.slackware.com/torrents/
> slackware-9.1-install-d1.torrent"`
> 
> On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:20 pm, John Mills wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > My system is RH-7.3.
> >
> > I want to capture Slackware ISO images and am not making much headway with
> > BitTorrent. I downloaded BitTorrent-3.2_cvs_alikins-2.noarch.rpm, created
> > the user 'btuser' in his/her own unique group (initially with a 'nologin'
> > shell, then on the second try with 'bash'), and associated
> > 'application/x-bittorrent' and file extension 'torrent' with
> > '/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py' in both '/etc/mailcap' and for a couple of
> > browsers.
> >
> > I then went to [http://www.slackware.com] and tried to download the 'd1'
> > and 'd2' ISOs for slack-9.1. I saw a "progress" panel for a few seconds,
> > then it went away. What I got were a couple of binary files about 50KBy
> > long with the extension 'torrent'.
> >
> > What should have happened? How do I start using this tool?
> >
> > TIA.
> >  - John Mills
> >    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> >
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