On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 02:14 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Simon Slater wrote: > > > Just for a little clarification (my brain cells haven't got anywhere > > near pedantry yet). On a laptop with F7 with a F8 install DVD > > complete with depsolve bugs, do I copy the DVD contents to the hard > > drive and point Jigdo(-lite?) to that and burn a new install DVD > > when Jigdo is finished; or can I use the DVD as the place for Jigdo > > to scan? But then how do I make new install media? > > regardless of where you're getting the reconstruction files from, > jigdo[-lite] will create a new DVD .iso image in your working > directory on the hard drive. once that's done, then you'll have to > use your favourite DVD burning tool to make a physical DVD. so you're > certainly free to use a DVD in the drive as the source for > reconstruction files. Thanks Robert, it makes more sense now. -- Regards Simon