On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:23:07AM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote: <snip>
You don't need that for this idea. It does not make a difference which sort if internet connection you have whether you download one file of 1GB size or a script downloads 1000 files each of 1MB size.
So what is the advatage of using this method? As example I do downloads at my job and my Linux is at home and only has dialup.
Also you would have a CD or DVD burner in the machine that does the instalation.
You don't need that as well.
Some might not, but how do I transform my Windows machine in a Linux machine if I do not have the data on an external whatever?
What I DO see is a script (mine adapted or a new one) that is on http://opensuse.org/index.php/1_CD_install and does the needed downloads.
This is exactly what Eberhard said. But I still think jigdo is better than a script because a script has so many dependencies to additional tools that it is quite error prone for the average user. jigdo could be used even by a novice user that is capable of burning iso images on every platform.
I will test http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Creating_Jigsaw_Download_Images_for_DVD_an... and let you know.
Sure there are some of these people. But even then you don't have the packages duplicated on the FTP servers in the inst-source directory and the images.
That is a fact.
I am sure it is not more difficult to explain jigdo to the average user than it is to explain how to burn ISO images.
As I said, I will test it and see what happens. I will now put on my beginners hat and see what happens. -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs