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[Paul Higgins]

I wonder if the file that he's describing is in fact a .torrent stub.  Those 
files are really small because they just tell the BitTorrent client where to 
look for the file.  If you don't have your client set up right, nothing 
happens after you download the stub file.  (If the client *is* set up 
correctly, then it should grab the file and begin downloading).  Usually 
a .torrent file is around 10 kB, but that varies somewhat.  

Personally speaking, I would just download the .iso directly rather than 
bothering with BitTorrent.  The client setup is usually a little tricky, and 
one of the best clients (Azureus) requires that a recent version of Java 
Runtime is installed (not as easy on Linux as it is on OS X).  IMO, setting 
up a BitTorrent client is something that can wait.

-PRH 

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 05:59 am, Derick Centeno wrote:
> Dear Dustin:
> David is quite right that you should be suspect regarding that file.
> Open source programming or programming of any sort involves the
> sciences, not magic.  The official .iso is about 3GB as David
> stated.  The steps or procedures of transferring all that via the
> means you are currently considering are unknown.
>
> It could be helpful if you posted here where you found this tiny file.
>
> Consider this, experienced members of this YDL community have not
> heard of this file.  Therefore it is suspect.  Consider well what you
> do before using whatever that file contains on your machine.
>
> Good Luck...