I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. I keep
hearing about bittorrent and jigdo, so I thought I'd try. Bittorrent
wouldn't connect to something; after it had failed for over half an hour, I
concluded it wasn't going anywhere and switched to jigdo. I started a
download
* Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061109 09:00]:
I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet.
...
It downloaded stuff - as far as I could see in batches of ten files -
for about four hours, then said
Aaargh - 288 files could not be downloaded. This should not
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061109 09:00]:
I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet.
^^^
...
for about four hours, then said
Aaargh - 288 files could not be
* Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061109 15:00]:
It is the latest available, 'jigdo-file' 0.7.3-1, which contains the
jigdo-lite I ran. The 'jigdo' package claims it is NOT yet capable of
processing .jigdo files - use jigdo-lite...
jigdo is used on the repository end to create the template
Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
- What is the advantage of jigdo? As far as I can see it
[...]
If the download is interrupted, jigdo can resume, and even can
salvage partial files.
Oh, that makes sense (but I thought some ftp clients -- lftp perhaps --
could do that too).
[...]
Jidgo is
From: Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: jigdo-newbie question
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:26:05 +
Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
- What is the advantage of jigdo? As far as I can see
* Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061109 16:39]:
I use Sarge 3.1 r3. I downloaded the CDs. When Etch is released
officially as the stable version, approximately how many identical
files will it be likely to share with Sarge 3.1 r3 as a function
of the total number of files in the
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