Using jigdo to save on downloads
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Mon Apr 11 17:29:17 UTC 2005
On 04/11/2005 08:04:31 AM, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
>
> You can find the jigdo/template files I generated here. Feel free to
> edit the .jigdo files themselves and change/add more lines to the
> [Servers] sections. Right now I left them pointing at the master
> server. Or you can specify a local file path during reassembly
> (below).
>
> http://download.wpi.edu/pub/jigdo/
>
> For jigdo itself, the packages which I intend to submit to Extras are
> here (built/tested on FC3):
>
> http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/fedora/extras/jigdo/
>
> To recreate the original CD/DVD ISO images from your file tree:
Using chuck's jigdo template for fc4t2 dvd - and my rawhide mirror
(updated last night around midnight) - here is a screenshot of jigdo
demonstrating just how effective it is:
http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fc4t2jigdo.png
After telling it to scan my mirror of rawhide, it found 1562 of the
1820 files on the DVD image. That's 86% of the DVD image that I don't
have to download because I already have it - and as an added bonus, for
my "DVD Challenged" box, after the DVD is assembled, mount the iso, and
create the CD images very quickly by having jigdo-lite scan the DVD
image.
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Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/
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