On Dec 25, 2007 9:06 AM, Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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?? The info should be on every re-spin page. Unfortunately, it's not. http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/fedora-8-everything-spin-released > 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? It's comparable with BitTorrent. > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
