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

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Jan 10 13:32:20 UTC 2008


On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, David Jansen wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:11:02AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, David Jansen wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for putting up this cookbook, it's a nice addition to the FAQs
> > > and wikis already available to the Fedora community.
> > >
> > > Perhaps a useful trick I found somewhere that avoids the spaces in file
> > > names: you can tell the system to always mount a cd/dvd on the same
> > > path,
> > > e.g:
> > >   gnome-mount --write-settings --device /dev/scd0 --mount-point dvd
> > > and after that, all cds/dvds will appear as /media/dvd in stead of a
> > > name with the label in it. Jigdo isn't the only application that cannot
> > > handle the spaces, unfortunately.
> >
> > i'm just about to add this to the wiki page, but i want to document
> > how to deactivate this setting as well.  from the man page for
> > gnome-mount, i see the option "--erase-settings", so the deactivation
> > command would then be:
> >
> >   $ gnome-mount --erase-settings --device /dev/sr0
> >
> > in my case, anyway.  does that look right?
>
> yes, that would be the right way to do it (and with my dvd writer
> device name substituted, it works for me to get back to the default
> behaviour this way)

yup, verified it myself, thanks.

rday
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