Flight 6 torrent (Problem)

[john levin]

Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>    > 
>    > Sridhar M.A. wrote:
>    > > Hello all,
>    > > 
>    > > Just saw that dapper flight 6 is available for download (thanks to this
>    > > list). But when I click on the dapper-install-i386.iso.torrent file, the
>    > > browser prompts for saving the iso file. I saw the same behaviour with
>    > > wget. Has anyone noticed this problem? Or am I doing something wrong?
>    > 
>    > That's what I would expect to happen. Download and save the .iso file
>    > somewhere on your system which you can then burn to a CD.
>    > 
>    > I'm not sure what you were expecting?
>    > 
> I was and am under the impression that one downloads a torrent file and
> uses one of the numerous clients to download the real iso/whatever.
> Well, that is how I have downloaded many of the things. But, this is the
> first time I am seeing this behaviour.
> 
> Regards,


Just tried it, and downloaded the torrent.
Try clicking on this link
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-6/dapper-install-i386.iso.torrent
and you should get the torrent.

HTH

John