Download FC3 by CD via bittorent

Kevin Freeman kfreem02 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 9 14:18:50 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:00 +0700, Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First time using bittorent .. on a dialup. I will not tell you how long
> I need to download FC3 :-) ... but this is not the point.
> 
> I am using this command : btdownloadcurses.py --url
> http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/heidelberg-binary-i386-iso.torrent
> 
> Is there anyway to choose to download only CD1 ou CD2, so we can share
> the download with some friends ... and so multiply our 5ko/s bandwidth
> :-)
> 
> Philippe
> -- 
> Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand
> 

I don't know if the standard bt client can do that, but azureus
certainly can.  Open the torrent in azureus, then double-click it.
Select the files tab and, for each unwanted file, right-click and select
"Do not download."

Kevin Freeman




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