slackware 10.0 is out

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Thu Jun 24 13:11:59 EDT 2004


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just leave it alone when it gives those timeouts. mine threw up 
timeout errors for about the first half hour. I think it's bc the 
trackers are so buisy with all the downloaders.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 
09:23:05AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> When I tried it, it sat there for two minutes and then timed out being
> unable to do this tracker thing.  It apparently couldn't find a
> tracker.  Does being behind a firewall / router have anything to do
> with it?  I'll try it again but like I said before, it timed out with
> an error.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > I just installed from the slackware pkg, grabbed the torrents from 
> > www.slackware.com, ran btdownloadcurses.py ./file.torrent and off it 
> > went.
> > It may take a while to start doing something but eventually it'll 
> > connect.
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:05:32AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > Good luck grabbing ISO's! Every FTP site I tried is maxed out and I
> > > cannot get in!
> > > 
> > > Brings up a question though.  Bittorrent: How do you get it going? I
> > > thought I'd try bittorrent out to get these ISO's but the
> > > documentation for bittorrent is so bleak I don't know ehere to turn.
> > > The README file says something about starting up a tracker and
> > > creating a template with the .torrent extension but I downloaded four
> > > .torrents from slackware but can't figure out how to start them.
> > > 
> > > Anybody have more info on this interesting toy?
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:18:32AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > thanks for the info. I'll have to grab the isos and do an upgrade.
> > > > On 
> > > > Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:19:37AM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > > > > Hi all.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I thought I'd post for the benefit of those who are interested that
> > > > > slackware 10.0 is out. I'm surprised that they're offering the 2.4.26
> > > > > kernel, but 2.6.7 is in testing. But then again, they did the same
> > > > > thing with 2.2 when 2.4 came out.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Greg
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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