Hi, On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:43:39PM +0100, M9. wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to dl the 11.1B4, to see if the dvd contains the wireless-network drivers. I started this morning at half past 7, and now, at half past eight (13 Hours later) i am allready at 71.56% ! 2.94 GB, from 4.11.
For me this is the last time i ever will try torrents.. So if you will continue to distribute the the sw this way, i am going to stop testing it.
For me this torrent is the worst idea ever....
In the future, we plan a change in this regard. We will make the DVDs available more easily. They'll be visible on download.opensuse.org via HTTP, and the download server will know the mirrors that have the DVDs and redirect to them. Thus, the images will be much easier to find. Moreover, then you can use a metalink client which can *combine* BitTorrent download with HTTP/FTP download from mirrors. Thus, you'll have one method of downloading that always works, and gives best of both worlds. It'll work even when nobody is seeding, and you won't need to switch download client and method of downloading. All this works already for the other images - the planned change is that we'll make the Alpha/Beta DVDs available in the same way. What do you need to do / to know? I recommend to use aria2c, which is the most powerful metalink client. http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=aria2 It is a Factory package. The command that you run to download an image is as simple as: aria2c http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta4/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta4... aria2c will automatically use P2P and/or multiple mirrors, whatever is available, and make sure that the download arrives 100% correctly. It verifies the download via provided checksums and can automatically start seeding the verified bits. If you wonder how that works: The magic behind it is that aria2c will download an XML description which looks like this: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1-Beta4/iso/openSUSE-11.1-Beta4... If you look inside, you'll see a bittorrent link, checksums, all mirrors, segmented hashes, and even a PGP signature. aria2c is very robust against all sorts of failures. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development