Re: jigdo question
begin Haroldo Stenger <hstenger@adinet.com.uy>
> 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.
yes, once i get some of this figured out better, i plan on sending some
diffs. to be honest, when it started to "work" i was really surprised.
i was just dicking around. i can't even remember what i did. lol!!
> > 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.
we (the linux users' group of davis) need the woody images. we hold
monthly installfests, but don't have net connections where the IF's take
place. often we get very new laptops with some wierd video chipset
which is totally unsupported by X 3.*. either we install
redhat/mandrake/suse or we need woody. roughly 1/4 of us use debian,
including me. we really dislike working on any system other than debian.
the other distros don't make sense to us for various reasons. even
small stupid things -- like searching 15 minutes for an rpm until
realizing that redhat rpm's can contain uppercase letters. every so
often, i waste 10 minutes of my life before remembering redhat has
"XFree86.rpm" rather than "xfree86.rpm". bleah.
but for these laptops, potato is simply unsuitable.
> Let's continue in touch
>
> Uruguay (uy) is a country with coasts to the Atlantic Ocean and the R?o de la
> Plata, east Argentina, and south Brazil. We have a very active Linux community
> here, and some of us are Debian users. Thanks for asking!
cool. i love the fact that people can be friends beyond political and
cultural boundaries. if you forget about the spam and commercialism,
the internet is a wonderful place. :) yes, let's keep in touch.
you sound like a very cool guy!
oops -- just noticed that the woody download just finished. some files
didn't download. off to investigate... :)
pete
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