Betanet installation with fast catchup:
$ mkdir n_beta1
$ cd n_beta1
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/algorand/go-algorand-doc/master/downloads/installers/update.sh
$ chmod 544 update.sh
$ ./update.sh -i -c beta -p ~/n_beta1 -d ~/n_beta1/data -n
$ cd data
$ cp config.json.example config.json
$ nano config.json
algodev
CTRL/X
$ diff config.json.example config.json
23c23
< "DNSBootstrapID": "<network>.algorand.network",
---
> "DNSBootstrapID": "<network>.algodev.network",
$ cd ..
$ ./goal node start -d data
$ BETANET_CATCHPOINT=`curl -s https://algorand-catchpoints.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/channel/betanet/latest.catchpoint`
$ ./goal node catchup $BETANET_CATCHPOINT -d data
$ ./goal node status -d data -w 1000
It works!
✔ Solved by tsachi in post #2
