On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:43:23AM +0200, houghi wrote:
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.
1. The mirrors do not have to handle so much data and thus it is more likely that the data you are requesting is already in the cache which reduces disk I/O on the server making the server faster. 2. If you want two different ISO sets that share an amount of files, you download these files only once because jigdo does cache them on your local system.
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?
You don't have to. As I told multiple times there is a Windows client for jigdo.
I will test http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Creating_Jigsaw_Download_Images_for_DVD_an... and let you know.
Very good. Currently the page mainly describes how to create the images and just refers to external pages when it comes to the user part of downloading the images. If the responsible people at SUSE agree to use this message for distribution we could add some more SUSE specific user description to this page. Or we make a separate page for the user download actions to not confuse them by all this image creation stuff they are not actually interested.
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.
Have fun! Should I provide you with some of the sample images I made for beta3? Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de