On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > for the first time, i'd like to download the fedora 8 x86_64 re-spin > > and, to be frank, there's not a single web page i've found that tells > > me how to use jigdo to do it. > Reading this thread just now, here's my response to your mail: > http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ FWIW, I grabbed the Unity respin Friday (also grabbed the git of the config so I could try my hand at building a respin with revisor; just fun to play with in off time), and the only thing I found confusing was the output that jigdo-lite throws at you. It cycles through and says 'finished' more than once; now, on my fast connection here (100Mb/s) it went by quickly, but I can just imagine what it would have been like on even my DSL at home. It wasn't too difficult, though, and since I keep a local mirror rsynced of updates and Everything on a USB drive, I was even able to figure out in a few minutes what to do to make jigdo-lite use that mirror. But I'm not a newbie; but even then jigdo was a little strange. As to changes to your already pretty good instructions, I would point out that, if you edit the .jigdo to add local repositories, you need the trailing '/' in the path. For that matter, any path in the .jigdo needs the trailing '/' to work, as jigdo doesn't add the slash if it isn't already there, but just does a blind concatenate. Also, having the sample output, and mentioning that, once jigdo-lite has loaded in your CD/DVD or other existing files, you just need to press ENTER every time it asks where to find the files (and it WILL ask). Having a sample run's output available as another page might be nice, since jigdo-lite's output is so confusing. The progress is very difficult to follow (and I know that's a jigdo upstream issue, but having an explanation of what to expect as the output in this case would help people tremendously) unless you know to look for and pause at the 'x of y files' points in the downloads. Otherwise, it's pretty good as-is. And, if no one else says this, I will: Many Many Many thanks for the re-spins. This makes installing fresh F8 much much much more pleasant; I know that I personally don't want to have to remember how to work around all those installer 'quirks' found in the original F8 release every time I install it anew. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
