-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >>> >>> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously, >>> David. As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the >>> majority of us would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to >>> use, one for getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that >>> src list on your machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it >>> where to put the results. With such a working gui that launched the >>> jigdo-lite as a background process giving it the correct syntax and data >>> as derived from the file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would >>> multiply by 10 in a week. >> I don't recall if I pointed you at this site page before or not. I have >> others. But it just about does not get more clear than this. Done by >> Fedora people, for Fedora people, to download Fedora isos. >> >> >> Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs >> http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ >> >> >> This site gives very good, clear instructions. They were for me. And, as >> an experiment, I just did this again while running Windows XP Pro. That >> was interesting because there are next to no instructions for that way. >> And none of the Linux instructions 'work' in the Windows jigdo. They are >> all actually writen for Debian isos and had to be edited. >> >> And yes I have done this before now. Several times. Just for giggles and >> grins. I have also, somewhere, the necessary rsync CLI that will let you >> 'change' a rc1 beta to a rc2 beta iso by just 'diffing' the changed >> parts of the contents between the two. >> -- >> > And that, David, TBT, makes a heck of a lot more sense. That should be > published, but I suspect a carefull reading of the rsync docs would soon > re-invent that particular wheel. This got to bugging me. Many boxes of junk searches looking in notebooks later: Here is the information that I used. It is dated and I did have to 'edit' it to fit what I was doing, from where, and where I was doing it. It was quite fast even on the 56k modem I was using at the time. The *exact* line that I used for this experiment was this: (all on one line - note the 'space' between .iso and .) rsync -auvH mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/official/iso/2007.0/DVD/mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso . The information came from here: Using rsync to Update Mandrake-Linux ISO Images http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html Sometimes we have more time than brains. ;-) - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkdzHFIACgkQAO0wNI1X4QEIfACdHquoXc+1vFK1bLXgNtQ1Mwx2 yIkAoN93un9ZGS6vLoXKLQr9Eaz3RmeM =3ACj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
