Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:12 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> 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!
I'll definitely make a note next time. I didn't think much of it at the
time, I'm used to SUSE where the DVD has more goodies than the CD set.
Hans
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