Re: jigdo question
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin Haroldo Stenger <hstenger@adinet.com.uy>
> >
> > Don't rely on this file size's change. It doesn't have any relation with
> > download progress, neither with completeness-to-the-moment of the
> > image itself. The image will be complete when jigdo tells you that.
>
> it would've been nice for the docs to mention this!
>
Yes, I think we could contibute some changes to the docs.
> > I don't understand why the Debian community seems to ignore all
> > jigdo-related questions. Jigdo is being advertised in the website, but
> > when one asks about a doubt on the mailing-lists, or in the #debian
> > irc channel, these questions don't receive any attention at all.
>
> i noticed this -- before posting to debian-user, i looked through the
> archives of debian-user and debian-cd. it was /very/ difficult to find
> any question which got a reply. to be frank, i wasn't expecting an
> answer. i guess i got lucky. thank you! :)
>
Yeah! You were luckier than I was :-) I saw than lonely unanswered question and
felt like sharing what I had learned.
> > I wonder what's happening here. Is it that people don't rely on Jigdo
> > yet to download, ignoring the website's note on the convenience of
> > using Jigdo over full CD image downloading? Is it that there isn't
> > enough Jigdo knowledge yet? Is it just my own biased perception?
>
> i suspect people aren't use jigdo yet. i'm the first person to try it
> from our user group, and we have some pretty hard core debian fans in
> the group.
>
Yes, this must be the case. It happens that many people are long time Debian
users, and don't need to make fresh full CD images of woody, they just use
apt-get and turn their systems into full blown woody/sid ones. Just the ones of
us who need to install in many computers and haven't bought images somewhere
*need* jigdo.
> the connection to hungry blows big chunks. it took almost 2 days to
> download just binary-1. after reading the debian website, i got sold on
> jigdo. but i have the oddest feeling that very few people are actually
> using it.
>
I had the same feeling.
> one last question -- if we can't
> judge the file size of the .tmp file, is there any way of gauging how
> far along the download i'm at? jigdo's been doing its thing for nearly
> 12 hours. i have no concept of whether i'm at the 9% completed mark or
> the 99% completed mark.
>
> do you know of any way to tell? at least with binary images you have
> some idea of an estimated time to completion.
>
I fear there is no sure easy way :-( In a 64kb/s inet line, I spent about three
days to complete the download. I couldn't beleive my eyes when that happened!
Let's continue in touch
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Plata, east Argentina, and south Brazil. We have a very active Linux community
here, and some of us are Debian users. Thanks for asking!
Best regards,
Haroldo.
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