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

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Dec 27 13:26:37 UTC 2007


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> 	For the last two or three days, I've done little else but try
>>> to get the re-spin of F8. Twice, now, I've gotten two downloads
>>> going in parallel (on one instance of jigdo -- using the GUI
>>> interface that "yum install jigdo" gave me.
>>>       
>> Beartooth: The gui is broken, as the docs we *do* have clearly say.
>> Use the cli, jigdo-lite version.  Its been broken since it release
>> in 2004 or 2005, and no one to my knowledge has touched it with an
>> eye toward fixing it.
>>     
>
> exactly.  i'll fix my wiki page to emphasize that, while you need to
> install the jigdo *package*, the command you run is "jigdo-lite".  i
> didn't bother with the GUI front-end.
>
> rday
>
> p.s.  it's still not clear if jigdo-lite is capable of using the mount
> point that is automatically created by inserting the original DVD,
> given that the mount point name has embedded spaces, which is why i
> suggest that you need to unmount the DVD, then manually mount it back
> under something like /mnt.
>
> has anyone got this to work using the original mount point, which is
> something like "/media/Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD"?  that would simplify
> things.
>   
    Hi Rday, it looks to me like /media/"Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD" should 
work. It is what you do when using basic tools.

Karl


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