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

[Karl Larsen]

David Boles wrote:
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> Gene Heskett wrote:
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>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
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>> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously, David.  
>> As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the majority of us 
>> would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to use, one for 
>> getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that src list on your 
>> machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it where to put the 
>> results.  With such a working gui that launched the jigdo-lite as a 
>> background process giving it the correct syntax and data as derived from the 
>> file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would multiply by 10 in a week.
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> I don't recall if I pointed you at this site page before or not. I have
> others. But it just about does not get more clear than this. Done by
> Fedora people, for Fedora people, to download Fedora isos.
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> Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs
> http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/
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> This site gives very good, clear instructions. They were for me. And, as
> an experiment, I just did this again while running Windows XP Pro. That
> was interesting because there are next to no instructions for that way.
> And none of the Linux instructions 'work' in the Windows jigdo. They are
> all actually writen for Debian isos and had to be edited.
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> And yes I have done this before now. Several times. Just for giggles and
> grins. I have also, somewhere, the necessary rsync CLI that will let you
>  'change' a rc1 beta to a rc2 beta iso by just 'diffing' the changed
> parts of the contents between the two.
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>   David
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>   
    Well I agree that that web page is pretty good, but it is very 
spotty data. It does not say "use the jigdo software in a command-line 
way" but you do. And it says if you wait and all is well it will ask for 
the location of your DVD data.

    I did learn you need to put the right stuff in /.jigdo but not 
really how to put it there. It is left as something to experiment with.

    From a writer's point of view the web page might be the best, but 
the best is very VERY poor.

Karl


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