Try Bittorrent (was Plans for DVD-ROM image?)

[Elliott Wilcoxon]

And most BT clients (at least for Windows...) allow you to select which 
files in a torrent you want to download, then it only fetches those parts.

Theoretically, there's nothing stopping someone from creating a 
apt/yum-like tool that works with BT as the underlying transfer 
protocol.  They setup a server, and anyone who wants to be a mirror 
would just download the whole thing then leave their BT client running 
as a seed.  3rd party additions to the protocol (I don't know if it's 
been added to the official client yet) also support multi-tracker, which 
appears to essentially mean backup trackers.  Here's hoping that FC2(3?) 
has a BT install option.

Elliott Wilcoxon

John Reiser wrote:

>> Have you tried bittorrent? That deals nicely with slowdowns/corrupt 
>> files etc.
> 
> 
>> BTW Fedora Core 2 (test) is currently running @ 4 CDs
> 
> 
> And therein lies an inconvenience with bittorrent.  The more common 
> installs
> (Personal Desktop, Software Development Workstation) require only the first
> 2 or 3 CD images.  Yet most torrents consist of all the images in a single
> "bag", and it is not possible to rely on partial results being complete.
> Stopping the download in the middle does not work, you must wait until
> it is 100% finished before using any piece of it.
>