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? On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Scott Dier wrote: > > > If at /all/ possible use bittorrent. Many mirrors seed into it and > > honestly its your best bet. > > > From Robert Citek on another list: > > Here's a script to get most of the isos via the bittorrent client > rtorrent: > > tors=" > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.iso.torrent > " > wget $tors > rtorrent *.torrent > > Place in a screen session, disconnect, and wait. > > Regards, > - Robert > > > Presumably you would do this from a directory that contained no .torrent > files when you started. Also, you should delete the lines that correspond > to files that you don't want. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091029/af1946e5/attachment-0001.htm