So for an upgrade on a system do y'all think it would be better to bittorent a copy then add a local source to my apt configuration? <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmiller%2Bl@gmail.com">mbmiller+l@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Scott Dier wrote:<br>
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> If at /all/ possible use bittorrent. Many mirrors seed into it and<br>
> honestly its your best bet.<br>
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</div>From Robert Citek on another list:<br>
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Here's a script to get most of the isos via the bittorrent client<br>
rtorrent:<br>
<br>
tors="<br>
<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent</a><br>
<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent</a><br>
<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent</a><br>
<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent</a><br>
<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso.torrent" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso.torrent</a><br>
<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.iso.torrent" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.iso.torrent</a><br>
"<br>
wget $tors<br>
rtorrent *.torrent<br>
<br>
Place in a screen session, disconnect, and wait.<br>
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Regards,<br>
- Robert<br>
<br>
<br>
Presumably you would do this from a directory that contained no .torrent<br>
files when you started. Also, you should delete the lines that correspond<br>
to files that you don't want.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Mike<br>
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