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.
