On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:20:24 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > It took me about 30 minutes of head-scratching and research (not too > unlike Mr. Day's) to figure out jigdo a few days ago. It was not that > pleasant an experience while going through it, but the resulting > understanding and success with "downloading" and creating the 17 CDs of > the Fedora Unity 8 Everything spin was quite exhilarating. > > I fetched the Fedora Unity .jigdo file, tweaked the pointers to look at > the local repository first, and corrected a little buglet (filed in BZ), > then it set it off with the appropriate jigdo-lite command. None but the first of which I could do (if indeed I've done that) for the life of me. But it's good to hear again that it does work. > About 35 minutes later I had 17 CD ISOs sitting on my drive that I > could burn and give to my brother who wanted to move to FC8 > and couldn't spend the time to download all the necessary > stuff on a lower speed connection. > > So, for me jigdo is a *big* win. Yes, the documentation could stand a > lot of work in terms of clarifying the procedures and what actually > needs to be done in what order, but it wasn't that hard (for me) to get > my head around the underlying elegance of the Jigsaw process. Well, it has been taking me at least three days so far, and I'm not (quite, I hope) done *yet*. But I have a partial result, maybe something close to a real result. This morning, about 24 hours from starting again on my #2 machine, jigdo-lite (invoked according to the Day Cookbook yesterday morning) had stopped in the night, with the following message : FINISHED --02:03:40-- Downloaded: 35,132,784 bytes in 10 files Found 10 of the 50 files required by the template Copied input files to temporary file `Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386- DVD.iso.tmp' - repeat command and supply more files to continue ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aaargh - 40 files could not be downloaded. This should not happen! Depending on the problem, it may help to retry downloading the missing files. However, if all the files downloaded without errors and you still get this message, it means that the files changed on the server, so the image cannot be generated. Press Return to retry downloading the missing files. Press Ctrl-C to abort. (If you re-run jigdo-lite later, it will resume from here, the downloaded data is not lost if you press Ctrl-C now.) I dutifully pressed Return, and gave it a few minutes while I caught up on these threads. Now it says : FINISHED --08:32:27-- Downloaded: 1,131,040 bytes in 10 files Found 10 of the 11 files required by the template Copied input files to temporary file `Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386- DVD.iso.tmp' - repeat command and supply more files to continue ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aaargh - 1 files could not be downloaded. This should not happen! Depending on the problem, it may help to retry downloading the missing files. However, if all the files downloaded without errors and you still get this message, it means that the files changed on the server, so the image cannot be generated. Press Return to retry downloading the missing files. Press Ctrl-C to abort. (If you re-run jigdo-lite later, it will resume from here, the downloaded data is not lost if you press Ctrl-C now.) : (Incidentally, I *like* that "Aaargh" -- it's something I can understand.) Hitting Return yet again produced : Found 1 of the 1 files required by the template Successfully created `Fedora-Unity-20071218-8-i386-DVD.iso' ----------------------------------------------------------------- Finished! The fact that you got this far is a strong indication that `Fedora- Unity-20071218-8-i386-DVD.iso' was generated correctly. I will perform an additional, final check, which you can interrupt safely with Ctrl-C if you do not want to wait. And it is cheerfully spinning numbers on the bottom line. Meanwhile, the .iso.tmp file has already been renamed to plain .iso. (It still shows a padlock, and I haven't tried to open it; but Properties shows it belongs to root. So I should be able to chown it and look in it.) I trust you experts therefore predict that, if I burn it aright, it will boot. So what will it install?? Alas! How do I tell?? I don't have a machine running anything but F8 updated -- the hard way -- any more .... Wait a minute; wait a minute! Jigdo now says (after a blank line below the passage about interrupting) : OK: Checksums match, image is good! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Images offered by `': 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: Do I really have to get and use *three* *DVDs* just to install F8 now, instead of the one I used before?? Someone here seems to think so. Or are they numbered sequentially by creation of later respins, as I've been presuming? Id est, one need only get and burn the highest? (I'll swear I saw three *numbered* DVDs, somewhere, in a list like the one above, just yesterday. Now there's only one for i386, one for ppc, and so on. But there were also 17 CDs. Has someone been renaming/ renumbering? Or am I even more confused than I know?) Aaargh ... -- 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.
