Getting Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) for your netbook using Bittorrent

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Blog | 10.30.09 | By spyderboy

To make a long story short, the link is here: http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-netbook-r...
Ubuntu 9.10 is freshly published, and from what I hear it is really speedy, and in a low powered laptop like my wee eeepc 1000h every bit of speed helps. Last night as I was finishing up my days programming duties, I decided it was time to download Karmic Koala and see if it really did give me that extra speed.

So I fired up Firefox, and went to Ubuntu.com clicked on the NetBook Remix download button. Since I have the DownloadThemAll plugin for Firefox, I should be able to do neat things like pause, resume, or even split up the calls to the download server into multiple chunks to increase the speed.

I set it downloading and went to bed.

This morning when I checked, the download was only at 90% and creeping along. Ugh. What to do? Usually, if I pause a download like this, and then resume it, it will freshen up the connection, and wrap up my download pretty quickly.

Not this time. Instead... Error. Upon trying to Resume the download again, I noticed it was starting from SRATCH. aaaaaagh.

Then my Spyder Powers kicked in, and I remembered... I have Bittorrent. "Why am I faffing about with a regular download? Quick! Find the link to the Bittorent download!" Easier said than done. As far as I can tell, there is no link to download the Bittorrent for the NBR version of Karmic on Ubuntu.com. Sucky sucky. But hey, it's free software, and it's pretty awesome software at that.

After a bit of poking around I found the list of download mirrors http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#bt

MIT has a great Karmic Koala download list: http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/karmic/
And the file I was looking for specifically (a mere 27k download) is here:
http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-netbook-r...

Once downloaded, it gives me all the magic downloading power of Bittorrent! Yay... the day is saved!
if you have trouble downloading the latest and greatest Ubuntu, I hope this helps!

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