[CLUE-Tech] Recent Debian CD in the Tech Center or "anyone had succes using j igdo"

[Collins]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:49:20 -0700 Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org>
wrote:
> On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 20:55:58 +0000, Collins
> <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:55:48 -0700 "Young, Ed"
> > <Ed.Young at echostar.com> wrote:
> > 
> > [ snip ]
> > 
> > > 	I've never created a cd from an iso image but I wanted a
> > > 	Debian CD
> > > and decided to excercise my new broadband connection. 
> > > 	So, this weekend I tried using jigdo to download/compile the
> > > 	iso
> > > image and it all completed successfully with no errors, but the
> > > resulting CD failed on the install. 
> > 
> > I must be missing something here.  What can be simpler than
> > downloading an ISO image and burning it?  Obviously I'm not
> > familiar with jigdo.
> 
> jigdo downloads each file, then builds the iso on your disk.
> 
> "Why jigdo is better than a direct download"
> 
> "Because it is faster! For various reasons, there are far fewer
> mirrors for CD images than there are for the "normal" Debian
> archive. Consequently, if you download from a CD image mirror, that
> mirror will not only be further away from you, it will also be
> overloaded, especially just after a release."
> 
> "Of course, a "normal" Debian mirror does not carry any CD images,
> so how can jigdo download them there? jigdo achieves this by
> downloading individually all the files that are on the CD. In the
> next step, all these files are assembled in one big file which is an
> exact copy of the CD image. However, all this happens behind the
> scenes - all that you need to do is tell the download tool the
> location of a ".jigdo" file to process."
> 
> 	-- from http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#why

Just goes to show my debian ignorance.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 sytem