Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")
On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 15:33:25 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:22:29 Steve Matzura wrote:
> > Thinking this tool would be the answer to life, etc., I tried it. Have
> > now tried it on three Windows and two borrowed Linux machines, all
> > with the same 0 results, which means it must be something I'm doing
> > wrong. Unfortunately, the Linux machines in question don't have
> > sufficient space to hold the downloads anyway, but this was merely an
> > exercise to see if Windows is the problem. It isn't. I know this
> > because I got the same two errors no matter which platform on which
> > Jigdo was tried.
> >
> > When I run the script that controls things, it gets right up to the
> > wget part, then fails with either of two errors over and over:
> >
> > 1. result too large
> >
> > 2. 404
> >
> > I have been at this literally all night, trying mirrors in seven
> > states--New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, Pennsylvania,
> > Wisconsin, California--some close, some further away, and have gotten
> > absolutely nothing but the errors listed above. If I could capture the
> > wget output, I would be happy to send it along, but the above brief
> > error descriptions really say it all. Suggestions?
>
> Copied and pasted from my reply to your earlier thread:
>
> Why not use the net-install? That fits _easily_ on a stick, even a small
Steve Matzura is trying to put a "complete three-disk installation set
on a single medium" with jigdo. Using a netinst ISO doesn't seem to fit
the bill.
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