-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karl Larsen wrote: > David Boles wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > >>>> Ah well, I wonder if you wound up with proper .iso files or were they >>>> .iso.tmp? And it is not clear to me that jigdo is really working for >>>> Fedora yet. >>>> > > > Jigdo on Fedora, the CLI version, works just fine Karl. The GUI version, > Jigsaw, actually has a popup window warning you that it is buggy and > does not work well. > > So? You are doing something wrong. > > > In a terminal, as 'you', cd to /home/<user> This takes a lot of space) > > Put the DVD in your DVD drive and check that it mounts. > > This will line wrap here but this is all one one line and there is a > space between jigdo-lite and http://) > > jigdo-lite > http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/20071218/Fedora-Unity-20071218-8.jigdo > > > (jigdo will download the jigdo configuration files for the Fedora 8 > updates) > > When the questions come up pick the DVD you want to update (6 is Fedora > 8 i386 DVD) > > When the third question comes up type /media (nothing else just > /media) > > Jidgo will scan your DVD, compare the packages with it's list, take the > packages from the DVD that have not changed and put them in the template > file. Jigdo will then download the updated files and put them in the > template file. When it is done it will create your new DVD.iso. > > I know that this works. I have done it five times just out of curiosity. > Once in Fedora 8. Once in Fedora Rawhide. Once in a Virtualbox Fedora > Rawhide Guest running on a Host Fedora Rawhide. Once in Windows XP Pro. > And once in a Virtualbox Fedora Rawhide Guest running on a Windows XP > Pro Host. Success=5. Failures=0. > >> > OK fine David. I did it EXACLY like you say using 6 and it worked > fine but had to stop it funny with Ctrl-c. But the result is on a DVD > and it looks good! Since you have had success I will return to my manual > writing. I never had a problem at all Karl. And I am happy for you that you had success too. Here is a link to some information that might help with your project. Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkd1CM0ACgkQAO0wNI1X4QGrggCgm4FyvP9ffOguFqLjdtbcSn9U MugAnA3DecAiUdjyKXnZIyGnS8Hz30Cy =qnAT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
