jigdo : which??
Beartooth Sciurivore
beartooth at swva.net
Tue Dec 25 17:06:14 UTC 2007
Meseems I goofed, royally.
As described in an earlier thread, I got jigdo running (or so it
seemed) with two lines -- one of which, I later discovered, was being
written to /root (where I didn't want it; I had presumed I had to be root
to run jigdo), and one to my home directory.
I stopped the download to /root, and let the other run all
afternoon and all night. This morning, I finally realized it was telling
me it was working on a file with the name CD10 -- of, it seems, at least
17.
There probably really are people who *enjoy* swapping well over a
dozen CDs in and out; and yes, I too still have a machine with no DVD
drive. So I can see the reason they're made available.
To anyone who is old, and tired, and in poor health, an external
USB DVD drive is worth its weight in gold -- especially if each swap
means a trip up and down stairs, or else (at best) sitting otherwise
unoccupied through a whole install. And Fedora has recognized and used
such drives perfectly well for the last several releases.
So, apparently, I grabbed the wrong URL.
Looking closer, however, I see several whose names contain "DVD";
F8 went on one DVD at release; surely it still does. So how do I tell
which I want? In Particular, what is the difference between DVDx and DVD-
DLx??
Also, how long should it take? Given a right choice of URL for a
first use of jigdo, will it get a complete install DVD in about the time
a browser would? Appreciably more? Less?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8; Alpine 0.99999, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.24, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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