Re: [gentoo-amd64] new graphical installer

[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>]

On Friday 11 August 2006 13:15, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hi,
> I found the x86 installer at bit torrent.  For quickly installing on
> many pc's.  The extensions are torrent not iso.  How do I use these and
> are all ok?
> Thanks.

Hi,

The torrent file is only a textfile to use with bit torrent to download the 
actual iso you're looking for by using pear-to-pear.

You nees to have bittorrent installed, I'd recommend Bittornado but there are 
many other gui and non-gui ways to use bittorrent.

The advantage of bittorrent is that you don't stress servers so much
As far as I am concerned, I've mostly found ftp or http download faster.

Anyway, you have to download the iso file to be able tu burn it to CD. I'm not 
aware of any way of installing Gentoo on many pc's without either compiling 
it pc after pc, or possibly creating an image of the first install and 
copying it (provided all pcs are the same, of course).

Thierry de Coulon 

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