Official MediCat USB - A Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair

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I think I might change torrent clients. I'm using an old crusty uTorrent v2.2.1, the last good version without the ads and bloat. So I'll try out a different one and see if seeding works out better for me. Might try some webseeds too.
 

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It's just frustrating because my upload speed is trash, (10Mbits/s) and I don't understand where the corruption is coming from. So having to reupload everything is difficult. And thank you for the offer to help. I mostly need to find a way to boot into UEFI, and chainload into the Syslinux menu. That's what's stopping me from making a UEFI MediCat version.

The torrent option will be back when I can find out how to properly seed my torrents. And thank you, I'll keep supporting this project for many years to come.

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I'll defintely help where I can with this thats for sure. Last time I checked which it has been some time UEFI Syslinux does not support chainloading other EFI applications like UEFI Shell or Windows Boot Manager. My Upload speed where I live is also absolute trash (Ohio) The current speeds I get are 400dwn and 10 up

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Have you tried using a seedbox or anything to help keep the torrent alive etc ? Now I know they cost but hey If you want when the torrents up Ill help seed as I have no data cap anyways "Yes my ISP probably hates me but thatseven before this" I use qbtorrent as well it will defintely help over others out their
 
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I'll defintely help where I can with this thats for sure. Last time I checked which it has been some time UEFI Syslinux does not support chainloading other EFI applications like UEFI Shell or Windows Boot Manager. My Upload speed where I live is also absolute trash (Ohio) The current speeds I get are 400dwn and 10 up

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Have you tried using a seedbox or anything to help keep the torrent alive etc ? Now I know they cost but hey If you want when the torrents up Ill help seed as I have no data cap anyways "Yes my ISP probably hates me but thatseven before this" I use qbtorrent as well it will defintely help over others out their
Thanks a bunch, I'll look into a seed box. I'm currently paying $2 a month for Google drive storage, but I think I might go for a seed box instead.
 

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I'll defintely help where I can with this thats for sure. Last time I checked which it has been some time UEFI Syslinux does not support chainloading other EFI applications like UEFI Shell or Windows Boot Manager. My Upload speed where I live is also absolute trash (Ohio) The current speeds I get are 400dwn and 10 up

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Have you tried using a seedbox or anything to help keep the torrent alive etc ? Now I know they cost but hey If you want when the torrents up Ill help seed as I have no data cap anyways "Yes my ISP probably hates me but thatseven before this" I use qbtorrent as well it will defintely help over others out their
Thanks a bunch, I'll look into a seed box. I'm currently paying $2 a month for Google drive storage, but I think I might go for a seed box instead.
 

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Thanks a bunch, I'll look into a seed box. I'm currently paying $2 a month for Google drive storage, but I think I might go for a seed box instead.

Even like a cheap VPS would work out for ya so you only have to upload once and everyone grab from their Not Sure how big the traffic is when first posting having those details would be awesome here are some places to look into that are good
Since I'm technically a "new member" I cant post links but here's a pastebin code BbzqN3SY
their are cheaper ones as well
 

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Am I doing it right? I think it's working.

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It's just frustrating because my upload speed is trash, (10Mbits/s) and I don't understand where the corruption is coming from. So having to reupload everything is difficult. And thank you for the offer to help. I mostly need to find a way to boot into UEFI, and chainload into the Syslinux menu. That's what's stopping me from making a UEFI MediCat version.

If you use a bit smaller RAR volumes instead of 7-zip (he compression is not very different) then you can use the Recovery Record that WinRAR have and this allow the program to repair the corrupted volumes if the damage isn't big.

From my tests I can tell you that the volume medicat.v18.10.stable.7z.003 is corrupted on MEGA, the other files are ok.

On Google Drive the medicat.v18.10.stable.7z.002 volume is corrupted.


Edit: I'm probably blind but where is the torrent link?

Scratch that I found the torrent files on Google Drive.
 
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Downloaded the mini version via Megaupload. Checksums of the parts and the final ISO agree with the checksum file. Used Rufus to create flash drive. Booted a Core2Duo system to discover that the wireless mouse would not work. Attached wired USB mouse and booted up system again. No red led on wired USB mouse. The PS/2 keyboard worked though. Booted system with a prior version of the full blown Medicat (18.04) selected Mini Windows10 of medicat from its boot menu and had no issue with the wired USB mouse on the system.
 

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Hi Jayro, thanks for your awesome software! You got all support I can offer!

I'm not an expert, but i've been long time torrent seeder and occasional uploader, been using my Raspberry Pi as my "seedbox" for 3 years now and I can tell you that it's decent!
But anyway, torrent creation is really not a hard thing to do.. you pick a file/folder that you want to make a torrent from, you pick some trackers for the torrent and insert them while creating a torrent and voila! you got your working torrent, you just need to open the torrent in your torrent client and pick the location where your files are so it can check them and start seeding!

I know you already know how to make torrent, but once I downloaded your torrent file from mega.nz I've noticed how there was not a single tracker inside the torrent file.. (i'm talking about medicat.v18.10.stable.iso.torrent)
A tracker is a thing to which a torrent client connects when it reads it's URL from the torrent file, and client basically asks the tracker if there is anyone else connected to the tracker with the same torrent file, so they'd share it's content with it.. and then tracker sends out list of IPs and Ports of other clients that fits your request.
It can work without trackers because of a thing called DHT (look it up, I can't post links as new member?), which can be really handy and redundant.. but putting in at least one tracker url during the process of creating a torrent file is still helpful to find other peers, especially for those who turned DHT off, and for those whose ISPs block DHT by blocking UDP connections, on which DHT is based.. currently your torrent file doesn't contain any tracker url, but you're running DHT so people are able to download from you anyway.. but no one will ever seed to anyone who only connected through tracker and not DHT

Also, putting in multiple trackers into one torrent file should work fine, but consider picking more stable/popular ones (at most 10) instead of using bunchload of them, since that way it's still some kind of bandwidth overhead and unecessary number of additional connections, torrent clients need to connect to all of them to check if there's anyone who wants to leech.. also, putting the most stable one on top is a good decision since some trackers only connect to one tracker at the time, and udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce should work quite good.. UDP trackers are better way to go, but put in some http/https ones as well because it is a way around blocking that ISPs might do

I don't think it's a fatal mistake and it'll work out just fine this time, but next time please don't forget about it! i've seeded 500GB of your 18.04 version through my 10mbps upload connection for since that version exists because I was able to connect to the tracker.. If that's not love then idk what is :P
I personally use Deluge, I don't consider it the best but it's what I can use with raspberry..
 
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I just made an account on "that scurvy bay site", and have to wait an hour to upload the torrents there, but I feel they'll be more easily accessible there too. My name there is [Jayro] and the torrents will be up on there soon.

UPDATE: Add this tagline to the end of that bay site's name to find them: /user/[Jayro]/0/4/0
 
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Awesome !!! Glad you got it up and seeding ill check it soon are the Google Drive and Mega links fixed as well ?
Google has the bare ISOs up now, as well as Torrents. I have torrents on MEGA, and I'm uploading the ISOs to MEGA now.
 
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I'm not an expert, but i've been long time torrent seeder and occasional uploader, been using my Raspberry Pi as my "seedbox" for 3 years now and I can tell you that it's decent!
That's pretty sweet, I might do that so I don't need to leave my PC on all day.


i've seeded 500GB of your 18.04 version through my 10mbps upload connection for since that version exists because I was able to connect to the tracker.. If that's not love then idk what is :P
That is MUCH appreciated, and thank you so much!!! :D
 
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That's pretty sweet, I might do that so I don't need to leave my PC on all day.



That is MUCH appreciated, and thank you so much!!! :D
No probs! You made my day with your reply ^^

I can help you out with some hints if you ever decide to build your raspberry pi torrent server, I can give you couple of links and major hints now
I recommend Raspbian Stretch, since it's a most sure way to make it work, but I am running it on OSMC (which is based on Debian Stretch as well), so my raspberry also serves as media center.
I still can't post any links, so swap the NANO's with /
https:NANOwww.techjunkie.comNANOcreate-a-headless-torrent-server-with-deluge-on-a-raspberry-pi
This is a nice tutorial, and you can skip the VPN part if you don't need it. Stable repository contains Deluge 1.3.13 (newest is 1.3.15), and libtorrent version 1.1.1 (newest is 1.1.10 right now).. I have compiled 1.3.15 and 1.1.5 and it works well, but 1.3.13 should be good enough, just don't turn on webui with public access, it contains exploits that were later fixed in 1.3.15...

I am currently running 433 torrents on Raspberry Pi 3B.. poor thing is chocked with all those torrents on seed, but you're safe up to 200 torrents for sure.. Raspberry Pi 3B+ was released some months ago and it is improved at some fields so it should run for you even better! Mine also plays stuff on TV (osmc.tv) and acts like windows and ftp share so I can access files remotely
I recommend getting Raspberry Pi's official PSU, which is sure to be stable and would be able to power one 2.5" external hard drive as well (altough you'd be better of with self powering hard drive (which is the best), or getting a powered USB hub instead)...
 
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I have a 64GB USB stick that's up for the job, so no worries there. I don't use or buy harddrives anymore. Too unreliable for me.

I would like to help out if possible with hosting the files. I could set up a server that you could use to share the files. I have a 1GB Connection. Let me know if this is of any interest to you.
 

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