On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:11:54 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: [snipperoo] > i tweaked the wiki page to emphasize that, yes, it *is* the jigdo-lite > command that you run -- that wasn't a typo, as a couple commenters might > have thought. > > and i added the commands to unmount the DVD from under /media and > remount it under /mnt to get around the issue with the initial mount > point having embedded spaces, for those who aren't familiar with > manually mounting media. > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/ Getting_Fedora_respins_with_Jigdo I had another look this morning, and found the revised directions fabulous, simply fabulous -- I did what they said, and jigdo started right up; what's more, it seemed to be giving me percentages accomplished at a glorious rate. That was over four hours ago. It seems the percentages, like yum's, are of individual pieces -- out of however many tens of thousands of such pieces are on the everything DVD -- with, as others have commented, *no* *way* to let you even guess how well or how much it's doing. What has also become obvious is that jigdo keeps jumping around from mirror to mirror like a bedbug with St. Vitus Dance on a hot tin roof. Is it supposed to do *that*?? There are five files that look to be relevant, showing (all with padlocks) in the nautilus of my home directory, the place I had told jigdo to put the .iso when it got it together. One ends in .jigdo, and seems steady at 529 KB; one in .iso.list, also apparently steady at 325 KB; one in .iso.template, steady at 183 MB; one in .iso.tmp, steady 3.2 GB; and one is called jigdo-file-cache.db, also steady, at 16 KB. (There is also a Fedora-Unity-<...>.iso.tmpdir up among the folders; it also has a padlock emblem, belongs to root, and is *not* steady, but still under 30 MB after all these four hours.) At least three times now, jigdo has declared itself "FINISHED" [emphasis jigdo's] -- and immediately (one or two seconds later) started up again, faster than I could have reacted if I'd been hovering over it. What's more, oddly enough, the nautilus view of "Computer" (on my desktop) correctly shows both this machine's internal CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive (which contains my original F8 DVD) and its external CD-RW/DVD+-RW drive -- and thinks both are empty! Maybe that means telling it to look in /media failed, so that it didn't find it and isn't using it. And I can't find where it's *holding* all this humongous download: the only folder under / big enough to contain even one DVD is / home/btth, and even that shows size steady at 5.0 GB. (I suppose it'll find its way into that .isotmpdir folder in time, but where is it meanwhile??) Fwiw, gnome-system-monitor shows jigdo-lite, with wget as a dependency from it -- both sleeping. Yet the bedbug dance goes on .... -- 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.
