On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
>>
>> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously,
>> David. As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the
>> majority of us would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to
>> use, one for getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that
>> src list on your machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it
>> where to put the results. With such a working gui that launched the
>> jigdo-lite as a background process giving it the correct syntax and data
>> as derived from the file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would
>> multiply by 10 in a week.
> I don't recall if I pointed you at this site page before or not. I have
> others. But it just about does not get more clear than this. Done by
> Fedora people, for Fedora people, to download Fedora isos.
>
>
> Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs
>
http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/
>
>
> This site gives very good, clear instructions. They were for me. And, as
> an experiment, I just did this again while running Windows XP Pro. That
> was interesting because there are next to no instructions for that way.
> And none of the Linux instructions 'work' in the Windows jigdo. They are
> all actually writen for Debian isos and had to be edited.
>
> And yes I have done this before now. Several times. Just for giggles and
> grins. I have also, somewhere, the necessary rsync CLI that will let you
> 'change' a rc1 beta to a rc2 beta iso by just 'diffing' the changed
> parts of the contents between the two.
> --
>
And that, David, TBT, makes a heck of a lot more sense. That should be
published, but I suspect a carefull reading of the rsync docs would soon
re-invent that particular wheel.
This got to bugging me. Many boxes of junk searches looking in notebooks
later:
Here is the information that I used. It is dated and I did have to
'edit' it to fit what I was doing, from where, and where I was doing it.
It was quite fast even on the 56k modem I was using at the time.
The *exact* line that I used for this experiment was this: (all on one
line - note the 'space' between .iso and .)
rsync -auvH
mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/official/iso/2007.0/DVD/mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso
.
The information came from here:
Using rsync to Update Mandrake-Linux ISO Images
Sometimes we have more time than brains. ;-)
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David
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