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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