Re: jigdo-woody download problem
Hi Elmarie,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:11:53AM +0200, Elmarie Bosman - ROS wrote:
> I am a windows user who would like to download debian linux to install on
> another computer. I've been strugling for a week now to download
> the jigdo files for woody r2, without success. I read throught the archive
> of the debian mailing list for clues as to what I'm doing wrong. I've even
> tried to force proxy addresses into the jigdo-lite-settings.txt file, but it
> didn't work either.
> At the moment the script looks like this:
>
> jigdo='http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/woody-i
> 386-{1_NONUS,2,3,4,5,6,7}.jigdo'
> debianMirror=''
> nonusMirror=''
These two should contain URLs for your nearest Debian and Non-US mirrors.
Since you appear to be from South Africa, you should use the following
mirrors. For the Debian mirror:
ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/debian/
For the non-US mirror:
ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US/
(Alternatively, if the above turn out not to work:
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/debian/
http://debian-non-us.is.co.za/
)
> tmpDir='.'
> jigdoOpts='--cache jigdo-file-cache.db'
> wgetOpts='-e ftp_proxy=http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org:80/ -e
> http_proxy=http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org:80/'
This is wrong - do not use any proxy at all!
The rest looks OK.
> What am I doing wrong or where did I misunderstand something? I would
> realy like to install debian, but I admit I don't have all the computer
> skills needed to do software installation. Please help.
If this is the first time you install Linux, you should really try to find
a knowledgeable person to assist you with it. Unfortunately, in my opinion
Debian isn't quite as easy to install as other Linux flavours.
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Cheers,
Richard
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