mskiptr
UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
For anyone interested, I have now submitted a draft PR to generate
.torrent files together with the ISOs.
And it turns out that bootstrapping the swarm should not require nearly as much work. All thanks to web seeds! Basically when there are not enough seeding peers, HTTP downloads can be transparently used as well.32 replies
UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
@Azema Viator I was thinking about this for a while and I think I have a pretty straightforward solution. Could the GitHub action which generates the ISOs also create matching
.torrent files for them? They don't need to be seeded or anything. Just exist and be easily available.
Then, anyone who manages to download an image from the website can inject it into a torrent client and bootstrap the swarm this way. Or someone could even automate this process with a script that periodically checks the website or the GH for new releases, downloads them directly and starts seeding (using the official .torrent files).32 replies
UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
Thank you so much! That saved me a few hours at least
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
Done! sha256 is correct
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
Agh that's slow… Well, at lest the size matches, so that's good
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
Thanks. I'm just checking the checksums now
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
It's almost downloaded… If this worked, I will know in a minute
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
Oh. I didn't think of that heh
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
Yeah, just use something else to send me the file then. Thanks!
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UBUniversal Blue
•Created by mskiptr on 1/13/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Can't download the ISO file
And also, please, please, please, make a torrent download a thing. It is a much more reliable and resilient option, can be quite a bit faster than an HTTP download and can always be paused without an issue.
The server or CDN you're currently using doesn't support resuming transfers (it didn't work for me in a browser and
curl tells me (33) HTTP server does not seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume.). That's why I'm asking for that missing part here: in this case downloading even 95%+ of the image is pretty useless.
Then, the download speed wasn't even consistent. Maybe that's because of trying over and over, but at certain points it would slow down to a fraction of my (already slow) internet speed. Most OS image torrents I've used were easily handling such bandwidth, even with a handful of peers.32 replies