[ale] Getting Ubuntu 7.10 (was Re: Ubuntu Georgia LoCo upcoming events)

[Brian Pitts]

aaron wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:39, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> OK people, crank up yer torrents, Gutsy Gibbon is out.
>> http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors
>>
>> Jeez. It's like when RedHat would post a new release a few years ago.
>> The Internet would almost noticeably slow down. Now it just delays my
>> spam filtering...
> 
> Was able to get the Desktop CD it as direct download from one
> of the official US mirrors... but not until the third one I tried.
> 
> However, an MD5 check sum was unavailable at their "check your
> download" page.  With a little hunting I ended up finding all of them
> listed at DistroWatch.com and confirmed that I have a good image.
> 
> ebf7ad055bc39634065daa10de980d7e *ubuntu-7.10-alternate-amd64.iso
> 9a4ae3cfd68911a861d094ec834c9b48 *ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso
> 61c87943a92bc7bf519da4e2555d6e86 *ubuntu-7.10-desktop-amd64.iso
> d2334dbba7313e9abc8c7c072d2af09c *ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso
> 43ff753b260729b12c7d21d3a6db8c73 *ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64.iso
> 7d88cd87df509a740d9f47b9bbf1375e *ubuntu-7.10-server-i386.iso
> 5308a79f5e652edba5be84644ee14b09 *ubuntu-7.10-server-sparc.iso
> 
> HTH!
> peace
> aaron

What I do is download a daily image 2 or 3 days before the release, then 
on release day I use bittorrent to update the file with any changes. 
Bittorrent interprets my old download as a corrupt/incomplete download 
and fetches only the chunks that changed. It's a job more typically 
given to rsync, but of course those servers are slammed on release day. 
I know I should be able to do this with jigdo too, but I've never gotten 
it to work right.

-Brian