On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 13:21:31 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > For example, if your home has limited Internet bandwidth, but you can drive > > to a library (or your place of work) where the bandwidth is better, it might > > be better to use the DVD or BD (blue-ray) install image on a USB stick. > > Yeah. But will a public or workplace machine be able to run Jigdo ? > Afaik, only Jigdo can get you BD sized ISOs or the full set of 14 DVDs. > The other download paths offer at most the first 3 DVD images.
One could also save petrol and have a physical DVD delivered to one's mailbox for less than $/£10. (And support your mail carrier.) > > run jigdo [...] on the “live” setup to download the > > CD/DVD/BD install images > > That's not totally trivial. I wrote an article about it: > https://wiki.debian.org/JigdoOnLive > > It mainly lacks hints for those who want to mount their MS-Windows > disk and let Debian Live's Jigdo store the download on that disk. > > Proof reading and additional knowledge about MS-Windows or MacOS would > be really appreciated. One of the main reasons I mount all the "foreign" partitions readonly (both NTFS and FAT) is in case Windows wasn't shut down with its filesystems fully synced and unmounted. That's also why I used Windows's tools to shrink its filesystems and partitions before I installed linux on this PC in the first place. But I accept that many people are less cautious. Cheers, David.
