On Jan 25, 2008 6:21 PM, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > William Hooper wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008 4:19 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have "Bob" the link to the fedora unity spins page > >> Bob was able to read the page > >> Bob was able to detect that though the page, he could get the CD ISOs > >> Bob was able to click the links and get to the message where he was > >> told abotu jigdo and given the jigdo file to download > >> Bob then concluded that jigdo was Linux only, so gave up as he was on Windows > > > > Way be when I first looked at downloading Debian, I had a similar > > experience. The difference was that I see no value in having to > > download and install a special program that I'm going to only use once > > to download one thing. I already have ways of downloading files via > > ftp, http, etc., why do I need to mess with this new program? > > > > At the time that lead me to Red Hat ISOs, because I didn't have to do > > anything out of the ordinary to get them. > > > > Nor did you ever need to with Debian. Jigdo is good when you can do one > of these: > 1. Refresh an ISO to a respin > 2. Download most of the files from an advantageous mirror that does not > carry the ISO. It might be from your own personal mirror. > 3. Create different-sized ISOs from those you already have (see the > subject line) > > If you want CD or DVD ISOs and the size you want is on your best mirror, > there is no point to jigdo. So mirrors will be asked to mirror every Fedora Spin for the foreseeable future? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
