If you have particularly the Iso’s for :
DVD i586
DVD x86_64
GNOME Livecd x86_64
Could you consider seeding a torrent (even at small upload bandwidth), Ktorrent won’t stomp on an iso file you already downloaded, it just checks the data for correctness.
Even a small bandwidth contribution will help downloaders, as leechers amplify your contributions by seeding each other with the data you upload.
Without some more seeders the torrents will die.
I wish I could right now at the moment, but my monthly volume is already at its end (have 2 days to go until they reset it, though) and my tracker at http://neutrino.dynalias.net:8080 is consuming the rest.
I don’t understand the “won’t stomp on iso file you already downloaded”. What do you mean by that? do you mean that you can’t reseed an already downloaded file? If so, yes you can, even with ktorrent
I am seeding at night. about 6pm t o6am central time seeding kde live, gnome live and install dvd.
Big Bear
That’s great, then we’ll gradually pick up the bits I’m missing. It’s “GNOME Livecd x86_64” which has stalled completely.
Just having a torrent running at slow upload speed suffices, to improve things for downloaders. Finding a dead torrent, won’t make a good impression on any one trying out the distro.
You could also set download speed slower than upload, and join a torrent with intention of seeding, it’ll help things, even if you don’t need the files.
if you’re trying to get them now, I just fired up ktorrent, so mine are seeding as we speak.
Big Bear
I mean you can seed with Ktorrent with a file you already downloaded. This does not appear to be true of Kget 
I was trying to reassure those who haven’t tried before, or might consider download Gnome Live x86_64 via metalink client like aria2c, that they can then run a torrent.
Actually K3b can extract the ISO off disks you burnt to, if you want to seed, without re-downloading.
I’ve no idea how kget works nor do I use it. You also didn’t meantion anything about kget, which confused me when you wrote about ktorrent
for ktorrent, as long at you have the real file and the torrent file, you can re-seed it pretty easily, all one needs to do is go to File -> Import Torrent and provide both the torrent file and its data file
I’m seeding both the 32bit and 64bit DVDs, but I can only spare 15k/sec each, otherwise I can’t browse webpages!
I will restart my seed of DVD x86_64 when I get home from work this evening.
I had downloaded with default for Metalink Kget, and re-downloading the torrent files and opening them with Ktorrent did the right thing. It meant I didn’t have to know where the torrent file had been stashed by Kget. Kget is the KDE download manager, which operates with Konqi and FF to let you queue & manage downloads.
If you have another machine on internal network, I found using aria2c(1) on the metalink file, is a great way of establishing a seed quickly, as it does parallel download with web & down/up loads to your torrent, in an apparently intelligent manner, which has let me seed the Gnome x86_64 Live CD.
We seem to have picked up some seeders & leechers now, so the download speeds should be higher thanks to our ‘trickles’, as the downloaders are sticking around again.
I also use aria2c (also wget) but never used kget (haven’t had a need for it so far). Good that seeders are coming and I hope you enjoy the new SUSE 
Seeding DVD-i586 since last weekend. My ratio is at 0.91 now. Goes up very slow. 19 leechers ATM. I will leave it running when I am up (about 12 hours a day) for some more time.
i just restarted mine…but, just the 64 DVD
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palladium
That’s great, even if you’re seeding at just 10KiB/s or so, it can make a huge difference to the swarm. We’ve managed to get the DVD swarm’s going again, even if most are leechers, rather than seeders they improve each other’s download speeds nicely.
If ppl can spare a little bandwidth long term, it’ll help keep the torrents alive, and help build the community. Once you know you’re going to use the OS having the DVD iso file is very useful. I’ve got some 16GB Flash drives and a USB Ethernet adaptor due tomorrow, so hopefully it’ll let the crummy old laptop seed with it’s disk spun down and screen turned off.
I have restarted seeding LiveCD-KDE4-i686 and DVD-i586
Current +5.80 ratio on CD and 1.02 on DVD.
ps when I look at the seeders/leechers column in ktorrent there are two figures, one in brackets, ie, for the CD:
seeders 0 (221) leechers 0 (29) What are the figures in brackets?
pps Why is one i586 and the other i686??
It means that you are connected to 0 seeds out of 221 available, and 0 out of 29 available leechers. Which means that nothing is going up. Maybe there aren’t any leechers that consider your connection fast enough so you get a lower “score” in their client.
Not your fault (we still love you ;)), it’s just part of the way bittorrent works. If someone closer to you (ping-wise) starts downloading, then you will be used :).
I am using ktorrent 3.5.4 bundled with openSuse 11.2, and am now getting a warning triangle against my opensuse seedings, Hovering over it gives: “There is a problem with the tracker: Invalid data from tracker” The triangle is similar to the one in the title of this post. I have done a data check on both torrents, and they check out OK. There seem to be no help files or man for Ktorrent 3.5.4
???
Google There is a problem with the tracker: Invalid data from tracker does not yield much useful.
Rechecking a file and hoping it will fix tracker warnings or errors is flawed logic. The data you’re downloading has very little to do with the tracker itself, which only tracks it and tells who should connect to whom. Even if tracker goes down or has some other problems, if you have DHT/PEX enabled and there are enough peers in the swarp, you will get seeders/leechers connected to you.
Also, the ktorrent shipped by Novell is crippled as it has DHT disabled so install it from packman or compile your own if you prefer. Further, make sure to open firewall ports and configure ktorrent to listen on these open ports, both for incoming connections and DHT
The DVD will work on 586 CPUs but the LiveCD requires 686. Essentially any CPU Celeron and after is a 686. (See Wikipedia.) Only some old CPUs like the K6 and of course the Pentiums are 586. Not that running a modern distro like 11.2 will be much fun on machines that old. Well, maybe if you like the CLI. 
Flawed logic it may be but without any help file/manual/google info, what is a guy to do? It is hardly an informative flag is it? It COULD have meant that I have RECEIVED some invalid data from the tracker and possibly then checking the data might have helped?
As for my crippled ktorrent, I have DHT switched OFF anyway, is there any benefit in getting packman’s version?