Re: jigdo error
On 2/15/2020 9:32 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
> When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of
> course, comes with Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a
> Debian newbie, I'm also new to jigdo, but want to use it because it
> seems the preferred way to download (and anyway I want the full Debian
> experience).
>
What do you mean by that?
> Unfortunately, running jidgo-lite on Windows is a minor pain (because
> Windows no longer provides a context menu option to
> open-command-window-in-this-folder), but even after going through the
> rigamarole to run it, jigdo bails out with error message,
>
>> "child 1124(0x1F0) died before initialization with status code
>> 0xC0000142"
>
> Could someone help me interpret and fix that? - or should I just drop
> jigdo and look for a regular download of a live CD?
>
Only you knows what you want, however, downloading a live cd or netinst
cd iso would be my first choise.
If I may, download a ready CD/DVD (first DVD only) of Debian and start
from there.
--
John Doe
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