I couldn't find any thread to help me out.
On virgin system(no bitcoin client installed) - ubuntu
Downloaded client from bitcoin.org, downloaded bootstrap.dat from http://eu2.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/
put it into .bitcoin directory
even tried to run it
Bitcoin-Qt feature is:
Did I do sth wrong?
What shall I do?
On virgin system(no bitcoin client installed) - ubuntu
Downloaded client from bitcoin.org, downloaded bootstrap.dat from http://eu2.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/
put it into .bitcoin directory
even tried to run it
Code:
xxx@xxx:~/.bitcoin$ ./bootstrap.dat
bash: ./bootstrap.dat: could not run the binary file
found on forum that:bash: ./bootstrap.dat: could not run the binary file
Bitcoin-Qt feature is:
Quote
* Import $DataDir/bootstrap.dat automatically, if it exists.
I run the bitcoin-qt client and to my horror it started downloading all the blocks, which wasn't the outcome I wanted to achieve.Did I do sth wrong?
What shall I do?
According to the help of bitcoind:
Code:
$ bitcoind --help 2>&1 | grep mport
-loadblock= Imports blocks from external blk000?.dat file
therefore-loadblock=
Code:
bitcoind -loadblock=bootstrap.dat
Thank you vary much for help.
Can I stop the process and resume it later or it will start all over again?
