Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......
In article <[🔎] 1166304891.7103.11.camel@theluggage.hansdp.za.net> you write:
>On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>> How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and
>> the AMD 64 version of Etch?
>
>I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a
>DVD of my Sarge-AMD64 CDs. But cdimage.debian.org doesn't have the
>3.1r0a jigdo files any more,
It does - look under
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/
All the files needed for the snapshot should still be available too.
>so I tried the latest ones, and it needed
>to download more than 5000 of the 7000 odd packages (of the first disc).
>So from Sarge to Etch I don't expect there to be any common packages.
Agreed - almost the whole distribution will have changed from one
major release to the next.
>> I am going to do this as an exercise to learn about jigdo and also to find
>> the most efficient way of downloading a full distribution from the mirror
>> sites.
>Jigdo certainly is efficient. The nice thing about it is if you
>download the DVDs and you need to install on a box that has only a
>CD-ROM, jy you use jigdo to make the CDs without downloading it all
>again. Although I have noticed that there are some packages on the DVDs
>that are not on the CDs and vice versa.
That's odd - short of documentation etc. changing from one set to the
next, I'd expect the set of files to be the same. If you can identify
files missing from one set, please report a bug!
>The other nice thing is you can use ordinary apt mirrors (that do not
>contain the ISO images) to download and create the ISO images. And you
>can download from different mirrors. Say DVD1 from one mirror, DVD2
>from another at the same time (if you have the bandwidth).
Yup, absolutely.
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