Bootstrap.dat on Ubuntu issue

[ZoladkowaGorzka]

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

Code:

xxx@xxx:~/.bitcoin$ ./bootstrap.dat
bash: ./bootstrap.dat: could not run the binary file

found on forum that:
Bitcoin-Qt feature is:

* 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?

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[K1773R]

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

Code:

xxx@xxx:~/.bitcoin$ ./bootstrap.dat
bash: ./bootstrap.dat: could not run the binary file

found on forum that:
Bitcoin-Qt feature is:

* 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=<file>      Imports blocks from external blk000?.dat file

therefore

Code:

bitcoind -loadblock=bootstrap.dat

[ZoladkowaGorzka]

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

Code:

xxx@xxx:~/.bitcoin$ ./bootstrap.dat
bash: ./bootstrap.dat: could not run the binary file

found on forum that:
Bitcoin-Qt feature is:

* 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=<file>      Imports blocks from external blk000?.dat file

therefore

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?

[K1773R]

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

Code:

xxx@xxx:~/.bitcoin$ ./bootstrap.dat
bash: ./bootstrap.dat: could not run the binary file

found on forum that:
Bitcoin-Qt feature is:

* 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=<file>      Imports blocks from external blk000?.dat file

therefore

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?

yes u can.