Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 16:39]: > I use Sarge 3.1 r3. I > downloaded the CDs. When Etch is released > officially as the stable > version, approximately how many identical > files will it be likely to share > with Sarge 3.1 r3 as a function > of the total number of files

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: jigdo-newbie question Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:26:05 + Richard Lyons wrote: >[...] >> > - What is the advantage of jigdo? As f

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Richard Lyons wrote: >[...] >> > - What is the advantage of jigdo? As far as I can see it >[...] >> If the download is interrupted, jigdo can resume, and even can >> salvage partial files. > >Oh, that makes sense (but I thought some ftp clients -- lftp perhaps -- >could do that too). > >[...]

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 15:00]: > It is the latest available, 'jigdo-file' 0.7.3-1, which contains the > jigdo-lite I ran. The 'jigdo' package claims it is "NOT yet capable of > processing .jigdo files - use jigdo-lite..." jigdo is used on the repository end to create the "t

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 09:00]: > > I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. ^^^ > ... > > for about four hours, then said > > Aaargh - 288 files could n

Re: jigdo newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread rlharris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 09:00]: > I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. ... > It downloaded stuff - as far as I could see in batches of ten files - > for about four hours, then said > Aaargh - 288 files could not be downloaded. This should not >