David Boles wrote: > - ------------------------------------------------- > Fedora Unity Home page: > > http://spins.fedoraunity.org/ > - ------------------------------------------------- > > On that page: > > "How to Use Jigdo?" > > with a link named "howto" > - ------------------------------------------------- > > Which takes you here: > > "Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs" > http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ > - ------------------------------------------------- > > Near the bottom of that page is a section named: > > "Using Already Downloaded Data" > > which says: > > "An ideal way to use jigdo is to "patch" an existing ISO that you have > downloaded in the past. This will reduce the amount of data needing to be > downloaded. To be able to use this existing data do the following: > > For an existing ISO image: > > ~ 1. Mount the image using a loop device: > > ~ mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/oldimage.iso > /path/to/mount/point/ > > ~ 2. Tell jigdo-lite where the media is mounted, when it asks. You can > also pass the --scan option to specify a directory to scan for files. > > > For an image already written to media: > > ~ 1. Insert the media, take note of where it gets mounted. In Fedora, it > should be mounted in /media/something. > ~ 2. Tell jigdo-lite where the media is mounted, when it asks. You can > also pass the --scan option to specify a directory to scan for files." > > > That seems fairly clear to me. It is probably possible to put together the necessary information from the sources you quote - I shall try it this evening - but I still don't find it very lucid. I actually read - or scanned through - the whole article, and deduced, probably wrongly, that I would have to edit a .jigdo file. If as you seem to say it is easy for anyone to follow, I would be interested to know how many people have done so. This is my philosphy: Jigdo is an alternative to running "yum update". The latter takes 1 brain cell, and 2 hours of my computer's time. Using jigdo has taken 100,000 of my brain cells so far, and will probably take 15 minutes to run when I get it running. Present rate of exchange: 1 brain cell = 1 hour computer time. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
