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Requested and Answered by Donavan Nelson [donavan] on 12-Jan-2005 05:09 (119117 reads)
How do I use Bittorrent to download CentOS releases?
In an effort to maximize our mirror network bandwidth capacity CentOS has elected to include Bittorrents as an option for downloading our releases.
The following is a quick overview of getting started with Bittorrent.
Please use bittorrent and keep your downloader running for others to use even after the download completes.
If you need to install bittorrent for CentOS, rpms are available from
Dag's repository:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorrent/
(Latest el3 version for CentOS-3 and el4 version for CentOS-4)
An earlier version of bittorrent is also available in the CentOS 3.3 contrib repository - which may be installed using 'yum install bittorrent' - a gui version is also available - 'yum install bittorrent-gui'
To download execute btdownloadcurses.py in a shell. (or btdownloadgui.py for the gui) You may need to open ports 6881-6899 and 6969 if you have tight firewall restrictions.
Final release .torrent files are also available on all CentOS mirrors in the same directory as .iso files (typically in mirror.centos.org/centos/$releaseversion/isos/$arch/. Beta and other releases generally have a single torrent server.
Once again - please leave your downloader running after the download is complete (with ports 6881-6899 open) as your downloader will become part of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our mirror servers.
Further information on bittorrent is available at http://bittorrent.com
The following is a quick overview of getting started with Bittorrent.
Please use bittorrent and keep your downloader running for others to use even after the download completes.
If you need to install bittorrent for CentOS, rpms are available from
Dag's repository:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorrent/
(Latest el3 version for CentOS-3 and el4 version for CentOS-4)
An earlier version of bittorrent is also available in the CentOS 3.3 contrib repository - which may be installed using 'yum install bittorrent' - a gui version is also available - 'yum install bittorrent-gui'
To download execute btdownloadcurses.py
Final release .torrent files are also available on all CentOS mirrors in the same directory as .iso files (typically in mirror.centos.org/centos/$releaseversion/isos/$arch/. Beta and other releases generally have a single torrent server.
Once again - please leave your downloader running after the download is complete (with ports 6881-6899 open) as your downloader will become part of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our mirror servers.
Further information on bittorrent is available at http://bittorrent.com
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