MEPIS Community Forum

Wow, that was fun
After riding my ever popular 'oh this has to be possible' wave, I finally got to shore. Perhaps a little late for anyone actually using the patch, and a great learning experience nonetheless.

So, my first ever torrent - thanks of course to the creator of the wiki page ( http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Creating_a_torrent ) and to SilverBear for his torrent creation page ( http://sblinux.org/pages/deluge-new.html ) - I am not sure I would have made it there without you folks.
While both how-tos were a little outdated ( probably older versions of ktorrent and deluge were referenced ), after a week or so of trying and giving up for the night, I was able to get a valid torrent created at linuxtracker.org.
The main stumbling block seemed to be getting the right files ( original and .torrent ) in the right directories in my /Download directory. Its always the little details that seem to trip me up.


During the process ( as usual ), I came up with a few questions that I hope you can help with.

- Can someone torrent the files so I can be sure that it worked?

- Also, if possible, can someone seed for a day or two so that I can pull the seed off of my main box and then pull it back into my plug server. As both machines have the same outward facing ip address, I can't be sure which one is actually seeding. Currently the plug server is showing as seeding, yet when I turn Deluge off on the main box and check with linuxtracker, the torrent shows up as dead. I know that I will figure it out eventually, but don't want to lose the torrent at linuxtracker ( first priority ) while I play with a solution.

- I am a little hesitant about editing the wiki to bring it up to date - is there a process to present a possible edit to a moderator before overwriting someone else's work?

- Minor, but still - is the correct title for the newest release SimplyMepis 11 or Mepis 11? The mepis.org page ( http://www.mepis.org/node/162 ) refers to it as Mepis 11, though the torrent on linuxtracker.org refers to it as SimplyMepis 11 - again, not a big deal to me, just trying to be consistent when putting anything out in the public.

I'd guess that until Warren changes the name it's still SimplyMepis.

For the wiki just hack away after reading the howto that's linked on the first page. If you make a mistake someone will correct it and PM you with suggestions if appropriate. They are very nice. I'm not sure who besides Adrian and Jerry3904 but they keep a close eye on things.

.

i'll bet that was fun. i know i had fun with it last night, seems to be working well this morning .

thanks

probably good publicity for Mepis as well.

' queue manager?' ;-)

Thanks to the other 3 seeders .
I was able to close deluge and it looks like the plug server is still seeding, guess it took other seeders for whatever reason.

I changed the references back to SimplyMepis for the xdelta torrents at linuxtracker - hopefully those checking the torrents won't be too confused at the name change.
I'll be busy over the weekend with spring chores and will try to get to the wiki revisions in next week.

Like most of my computer experiences, try and try again seems to be the norm.
Back at you

It would be great if you could find time to update that Wiki entry. I tried to follow it recently but got lost near the end...