On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:29:11AM +0200, houghi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:03:38AM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote: > Do far I am not going to comment, because I do not have it running. > http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~schiele/suse/ does not offer me a > workable solution. The other solutions ask me for a .jigdo file that I > don't have and am not aware of.
See below. > > Have fun! Should I provide you with some of the sample images I made for > > beta3? > > That would be nice, but I first need to get to a .jigdo file. You can find everything you need in http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~schiele/jigdotest/. You can either test with the i386 CD images for beta3 (the SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta3* files) or with the network boot image (the boot.* files). The last one is better suited for a small test because it is much smaller. If we provided these images to a wider audience we should add even more mirror servers to allow load balancing but I think for this test the current jigdo file is ok. > This is my comparison till this moment. ftp winds handsdown: > 1. Go to the download page > 2. Download > You have your iso's > > For jigdo it is: > 1. Go to the .jogdo download > 2. Download jigdo This could be provided from the download page then to ease the pain. > 3. search for a .jigdo file This would be provided on the download page then. > 4. Run the program > 5. ? Not sure if there is a step 5, as I did not get that far. That should be all. You have an ISO image afterwards. > So what I am saying, although it might be a great tool, it will not be for > everybody to use. I am by no means a guru or wizzard, but I am also not > really a begeinner, so if I am stuck a lot of people will get stuck as > well. With FTP I can say, click on http://example.com/cd1.iso and so on. > > With jigdo I need to have them install another program. > > Again, perhaps really great, but hardly : " not more difficult to explain > jigdo to the average user than it is to explain how to burn ISO images " Sure there are more "steps" and we need some _good_ documentation for the process but if we have that I still think that an average user can do it. > As I understand, jigdo will also only download (and make) the iso's, so > that step has to be made for both. Sure, but it releases the load we currently have on the mirror servers. In my opinion this is a reasonable value. Feel free to add your experiences to the wiki page and ask more questions. That way we could improve the documentation. It is likely that I don't see several problems because I just consider some things to be self-evident that other users don't consider to be. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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