Getting Woody images via jigdo

[cleverhandle]

OK, been a long time since I gave Debian a whirl and I guess you all convinced me that it's worth another try. Of course, merely getting the freaking images can't be simple, since I'll try to respect the developers' plan and use jigdo to assemble the parts. I've got jigdo doing its thing right now, but the instructions on what to download are a little unclear. The Jigdo mini-HOWTO says there are 8 Woody images: woody-i386-x.jigdo where for x 1 to 8. But I don't see that. I see 1 to 7 plus a "non-US" version of 1 and something called debian-update-3.0r1-i386.jigdo. What exactly do I need here? It looks like the "non-US" is the same as the regular image #1, except for occasionally using non-US mirrors, presumably for crypto code. But what's that update image? Is that the eighth image the HOWTO refers to? The template for it is a whole lot smaller than the others. I was thinking that maybe I need it to bring Woody 3.0 to 3.0r1, but the ISO found by the first jigdo file says that it's 3.0r1 already. Just extra stuff or what?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

eh, i just always downloaded the cd images. they sure seem to have plenty of bandwidth, and although they encourage use of jidgo, it seemed a bit too over-complex for me.

 

[cleverhandle]

I just poked around www.debianhelp.org and it seems that Woody trimmed down from 8 to 7 CD's at some point, probably when it went "stable". So that clears things up. Presumably, the "update" image is like it sounds - a way to update an existing 3.0 installation to 3.0r1.

Jigdo does seem a bit complex yet, but I can recognize the benefits to the system. And I might as well learn how to use the tools properly if I'm going to test out the distro.

Of course, I should really just do a network install, but I just like the feeling of having that "official" CD-set. American consumerism at its worst, I suppose...

 

[SUOrangeman]

What's so complex about jigdo? If I remember correctly, all I had to do was issue the command 'jigdo somefile.jigdo' and off it went. Granted, I was already in Linux and had installed jigdo. Heck, used jigdo to get the "unofficial" DVD iso (much better to have one file than 8+, right?). After all, you don't have to actually burn the ISOs to install them ... just mount them as loopback devices!

-SUO