Installing from the 3 DVD fedora 8 "Everything" re-spin [ANSWERED]
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Dec 28 12:21:00 UTC 2007
Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Dean Messing wrote:
> : I just completed the download of the jigdo "Everything" DVD respin for x86_64.
> :
> : FYI, I used the CLI command
> :
> : jigdo-lite http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/Fedora-8-Everything/Fedora-8-Everything.jigdo
> :
> : I didn't have the original F8 so I let it download everything (no pun
> : intended). It took about 12 hours running three parallel jigdo's, one
> : for each of the 3 DVDs in the respin.
> :
> : Now I have 3 DVD iso images, and I'm wondering how the installer is
> : going to treat them. I've never installed from 3 DVDs, just 1. I
> : mount it on a separate NFS-enabled machine, and point Anaconda to the
> : DVD iso image. Will this work with three DVD's? I don't recall if
> : one can even tell the installer about more than 1.
> :
> : I'm not quite ready to do the install but am just getting my ducks in
> : a row for when I am.
>
> Ok, I have egg on my face. I'm just glad that I discovered it before
> you did. The "everthing respin" is not a respin, just a spin. :-)
>
> If you use the above jigdo link, the stuff inside is from the original
> Fedora 7 release, dated 13th November 2007. So, I've downloaded
> alotabits for nothing. Oh well. Learned how to jigdo.
>
> Dean
>
>
Ah well, I wonder if you wound up with proper .iso files or were
they .iso.tmp? And it is not clear to me that jigdo is really working
for Fedora yet.
Karl
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