how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 18:08:17 UTC 2007


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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>   by the way, the above is still not annoyance-free:
>> OK....
>>
>> So, I gather from all of this that the existing documentation,
>> links, and whatever doesn't measure up to what you need or expect.
>> Would that be a fair summary?
>>
>> Is the question then, how can documentation be improved for the
>> average user?
> 
> all i'm suggesting is that it took an inordinately long time to figure
> out what should have been a two-minute exercise.  i'm guessing that,
> in most cases, readers aren't interested in a long-winded overview of
> things -- they just want to know what commands to run to get
> something done, which is all i wanted in the first place.
> 
> in short, what people might want is a fedora "cookbook" with tight,
> concise recipes that just plain work, out of the box.  if they choose
> to read up later on the underlying operations, then that's their
> choice.


Yeah. It did take a few minutes to find the importation and edit the
files to fit. The actual downloading, which I do not really need, took
about one and one half hours to get the the updates and build the new iso.


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  David
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