Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:11:52AM +, Tom Goulet wrote: Jigdo (er, jigdo-lite anyways) stops after downloading ten packages, and them makes an ISO image. It seemed to me that jigdo-lite was malfunctioning. That would not have happened with Wget. shrug jigdo just does things differently.

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:11, Tom Goulet wrote: I'll try to get across my somewhat frustrating experience and then give up. It's something you want; not a problem. It's something *Debian* wants, not me. Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation done! I don't need to do that with

Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I'm happy to announce that we'll be weekly creating netinst cds for testing (the future sarge distribution), this cds are made using Tollef Fog Heen's daily images of the debian-installer, like the full images we are currently building. The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is,

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote: Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that is dropped every 4 hours using wget? At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume. isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ? and/or isn't resume

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:00, jason andrade wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote: Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that is dropped every 4 hours using wget? At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume. isn't resume supported

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 04:11 AM 1/26/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: --snip-- I don't need to do that with Wget. It appears that you really *like* wget and that no tool other than wget will keep you happy. (Jigdo uses wget also.) My advice then is to abandon jigdo - either the jigdo-lite version or the

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up. It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite, dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW,

Automatic download mode for jigdo?

2003-01-26 Thread Scalar
I understand this is all a volunteer effort and so you can't expect installing Debian to be as easy as installing, say, Windows 98, but.. :) It would be nice if jigdo could do most of the hunting for files by itself, rather than me having to supply it with components. Personally, I rather

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 January 2003 06:48 pm, Gordon Huff wrote: At 09:06 PM 1/25/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: Jigdo does do large files very well. I don't do the 7cd's but I do the DVD. Jigdo really shines on files of this size , further :) I use

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:11:52AM +, Tom Goulet wrote: Jigdo (er, jigdo-lite anyways) stops after downloading ten packages, and them makes an ISO image. It seemed to me that jigdo-lite was malfunctioning. That would not have happened with Wget. shrug jigdo just does things differently.

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:11, Tom Goulet wrote: I'll try to get across my somewhat frustrating experience and then give up. It's something you want; not a problem. It's something *Debian* wants, not me. Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation done! I don't need to do that with

Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! I'm happy to announce that we'll be weekly creating netinst cds for testing (the future sarge distribution), this cds are made using Tollef Fog Heen's daily images of the debian-installer, like the full images we are currently building. The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is,

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote: Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that is dropped every 4 hours using wget? At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume. isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ? and/or isn't resume

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:00, jason andrade wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote: Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that is dropped every 4 hours using wget? At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume. isn't resume supported

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 04:11 AM 1/26/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote: --snip-- I don't need to do that with Wget. It appears that you really *like* wget and that no tool other than wget will keep you happy. (Jigdo uses wget also.) My advice then is to abandon jigdo - either the jigdo-lite version or the jigdo-easy

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up. It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite, dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW,

Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:36 AM 1/27/2003 +1100, bob parker wrote: Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that is dropped every 4 hours using wget? At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume. Bob I think so ... I'll run jigo-easy (and hence wget) in the background

Re: Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is, at... http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ currently only i386 images are being built, and given the status of debian-installer, they may or may not work at all, the

Automatic download mode for jigdo?

2003-01-26 Thread Scalar
I understand this is all a volunteer effort and so you can't expect installing Debian to be as easy as installing, say, Windows 98, but.. :) It would be nice if jigdo could do most of the hunting for files by itself, rather than me having to supply it with components. Personally, I rather