[CentOS] CentOS 5 and bittorrent

Thu Apr 12 18:04:38 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

John R Pierce wrote:
> log in as a regular user.
>
> $ wget http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ctorrent-1.3.4-dnh3.tar.gz
> $ tar xvzf ctorrent-1.3.4-dnh3.tar.gz
> $ cd ctorrent-dnh3
> $ ./configure && make
> $ su
> # make install
> # exit
> $ mkdir bt      # on a volume with a lotta space for ISOs
> $ cd bt
> $ wget  
> http://altruistic.lbl.gov/mirrors/centos/5.0/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent 
>
> $ ctorrent -D 250 -U 250 CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent
> ....

Done.  I've set it up for 100 mbits up/down and it is well on its way to 
using it all.  :)

Thanks for the crib sheet.

Cheers,