Meseems I goofed, royally. As described in an earlier thread, I got jigdo running (or so it seemed) with two lines -- one of which, I later discovered, was being written to /root (where I didn't want it; I had presumed I had to be root to run jigdo), and one to my home directory. I stopped the download to /root, and let the other run all afternoon and all night. This morning, I finally realized it was telling me it was working on a file with the name CD10 -- of, it seems, at least 17. There probably really are people who *enjoy* swapping well over a dozen CDs in and out; and yes, I too still have a machine with no DVD drive. So I can see the reason they're made available. To anyone who is old, and tired, and in poor health, an external USB DVD drive is worth its weight in gold -- especially if each swap means a trip up and down stairs, or else (at best) sitting otherwise unoccupied through a whole install. And Fedora has recognized and used such drives perfectly well for the last several releases. So, apparently, I grabbed the wrong URL. Looking closer, however, I see several whose names contain "DVD"; F8 went on one DVD at release; surely it still does. So how do I tell which I want? In Particular, what is the difference between DVDx and DVD- DLx?? Also, how long should it take? Given a right choice of URL for a first use of jigdo, will it get a complete install DVD in about the time a browser would? Appreciably more? Less? -- 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.
