Installing from the 3 DVD fedora 8 "Everything" re-spin [ANSWERED]
Beartooth Sciurivore
beartooth at swva.net
Sat Dec 29 21:12:31 UTC 2007
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:42:43 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
[...]
> I did not try to update. (I don't have F8 running yet.) Instead, I
> mounted the .iso (via loopback) and looked at the contents. Nothing was
> dated past November. I've since deleted the isos and downloaded the
> re-spin .jigdo.
I seem to have installed F8 on the last of my own machines on
December 4th -- root's inbox starts then. On the first machine I did, it
starts November 10.
> When you ran jigdo-lite, did it give you about 40 or 50 choices, or a
> much smaller list? The Everything list is big (since it's
> "everything").
I chawed till I broke teeth on so many different sites (including
that one) that my head still swims; without Mr. Day's Fedora Cookbook,
I'd've given up -- I all but had when I found it.
> Looking on the Fedora Unity site
>
> <http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins>
Let me correct what I just said : my head *spins* -- eternal
present, as the grammarians say -- as in Euclid; not swims.
It so happens that I unthinkingly ran jigdo as root; and
root's .bash_history shows I did it with this command :
jigdo-lite http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/20071218/Fedora-
Unity-20071218-8.jigdo
That gave me the 21 choices below. (At least, it does now; I
won't swear to exactly how many it gave yesterday.)
Images offered by `http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/20071218/Fedora-
Unity-20071218-8.jigdo':
1: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-CD1.iso
2: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-CD2.iso
3: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-CD3.iso
4: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-CD4.iso
5: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-CD5.iso
6: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-DVD.iso
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
7: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-CD1.iso
8: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-CD2.iso
9: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-CD3.iso
10: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-CD4.iso
11: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-CD5.iso
12: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-CD6.iso
13: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-x86_64-DVD.iso
14: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-CD1.iso
15: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-CD2.iso
16: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-CD3.iso
17: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-CD4.iso
18: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-CD5.iso
19: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-CD6.iso
20: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-ppc-DVD.iso
21: Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-source-DVD.iso
Number of image to download:
Of those, I picked number 6 (emphasized) above.
The .iso I eventually got and burned to disk calls itself
"FU 20071218 8 i386 DVD"
> I originally picked the third item in this list (a spin, not a respin)
> The respins are, I think, all contained in the 1st item (dated 18th
> Dec.).
Well, I take that "20071218" in the name of mine to be a date.
Note that the whole thing failed dismally on me twice, even after
being let run all night both times; that hasn't helped my confusion, and
I may have been *mis*calling the one that works "everything" because of
it. I'm sure at least one of the failures used that word in its name.
Fwiw, the folder Packages on my present DVD contains "2030 items,
totalling 3.0 GB," it says.
I can't look at the failures; I deleted them, for fear they'd
mess me up if/when I ever tried again.
I hope some of this is some help.
--
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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