Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:30:51PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > However, it does seem as though Etch AMD64 does share a reasonable number > of files in common with Etch i386... > > My new question is this: > > If you look on the Debian installer page you see that distributions of th

Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >My question is this: > >What degree of common files would exist between all or certain sub groups of >these different architectures? There is quite an overlap - all the *_all.deb files are common from one arch to the next. >Would there be enough in ei

Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Wackojacko
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, This may be a somewhat dumb question but it might have some merits so I am going to ask it. From the postings on the list I have received so far I have learned some interesting facts about jigdo, Sarge, Etch i386 and Etch AMD64. I am very grateful

general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, This may be a somewhat dumb question but it might have some merits so I am going to ask it. From the postings on the list I have received so far I have learned some interesting facts about jigdo, Sarge, Etch i386 and Etch AMD64. I am very grateful to everyone who responded

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-17 Thread Wackojacko
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and the AMD 64 version of Etch? Others have addressed the changes from sarge to etch but as far as the two different architectures go I use apt-cacher to share common files bet

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:12 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I am going to do this as an exercise to learn about jigdo and also to find > >> the most efficient way of downloading a full distribution from the mirror > >> sites. > >Jigdo certainly is efficient. The nice thing about it is if you >

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: >> How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and >> the AMD 64 version of Etch? > >I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a >DVD of m

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and > the AMD 64 version of Etch? I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a DVD of my Sarge-AMD64 CDs. But cdimage.debian.org doesn

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 08:31:26PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and > the AMD 64 version of Etch? > > Let me explain what I mean a little more. > > I have Sarge 3.1r4 on DVD. I also have Sarge 3.1r3 on CD. All of i

dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and the AMD 64 version of Etch? Let me explain what I mean a little more. I have Sarge 3.1r4 on DVD. I also have Sarge 3.1r3 on CD. All of it. As I understand it I could use jigdo to sniff through the D

Re: Question about Jigdo

2003-12-22 Thread Kristian Niemi
Hi, Yes, I know I haven't wasted *the download*; the cd's, however, might be wasted. So, still wondering -- I /will/ test them eventually anyway ;) -- can cd's from 20031214 and 20031218 be used together to install a (working) Debian (Sid) install? h: Krisse bob parker wrote: You have never w

Re: Question about Jigdo

2003-12-19 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:36, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Just wondering: I started downloading the Debian (sid) cd's with Jigdo > -- however, I wasn't fast enough. Now they've compiled new versions of > the files. > > My question is: would there be "compatibility-problems" if mixing two > different sets

Question about Jigdo

2003-12-19 Thread Kristian Niemi
Just wondering: I started downloading the Debian (sid) cd's with Jigdo -- however, I wasn't fast enough. Now they've compiled new versions of the files. My question is: would there be "compatibility-problems" if mixing two different sets of cd's, i.e. a couple of cd's compiled 20031214, a few