At 9:55 PM -0500 10/24/06, Jay Cliburn wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 9:03 PM -0500 10/24/06, Jay Cliburn wrote: >>> I have an FC6 DVD iso that I downloaded from a mirror today. I'd like >>>to make >>> it available to bittorrent, but I know almost nothing about, um, >>>torrenting. >>> I've installed bittorrent on my server and I've opened ports 6881-6999. I >>> went >>> to bittorrent.com, but couldn't quickly find the instructions to do >>>what I'm >>> trying to do. Can someone provide a quick howto? >> >> Not me, but the README file for bittorrent >> (/usr/share/doc/bittorrent*/README.txt) says how to set up for serving. >> However, I think you want to set up for peering with the regular torrent as >> if you got the DVD via the torrent; that might be done by 1) starting to >> fetch the torrent, 2) stopping, 3) replace the file in ZOD with your >> complete file, and 4) restartingGood guess... I followed your steps and >>additionally inserted the calculated >sha1sum into the SHA1SUM file, then fired up bittorrent again. After it >checked >my file, it's off to the races, uploading... > >Thanks again Tony. You're welcome. I'm a bit suspicious that you needed to calculate a new SHA1SUM. For your upload to be useful, it should be exactly the same as all the other peers have, with the same SHA1SUM. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
