On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:28:23PM +0000, Joel Baker wrote: >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:25:29AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Jigdo means that we can do this without eating terabytes of disk space >> all over the world. To get the DL DVD images pressed will probably >> take extra preparation work - see my new dvdtape package for details. > >This is more or less what I had in mind, other than some vague notion of >being able to auto-generate the 8.5 image from the pair of 4.7 images; >of course, jigdo might make that simple (no need to re-fetch most of the >pieces, only to fetch the filesystem layout bits and re-assemble them in >the correct combination - if it's that smart). Yes, it should be quite easy to grab all the bits you need from the 2 smaller ISOs to make the large one, with just the filesystem headers and directory structure changing. I'm actually working on a script to make that easier right now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/
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