Using jigdo to save on downloads

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Mon Apr 11 17:29:17 UTC 2005


On 04/11/2005 08:04:31 AM, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:

> 
> You can find the jigdo/template files I generated here.  Feel free to
> edit the .jigdo files themselves and change/add more lines to the
> [Servers] sections.  Right now I left them pointing at the master
> server.  Or you can specify a local file path during reassembly
> (below).
> 
> http://download.wpi.edu/pub/jigdo/
> 
> For jigdo itself, the packages which I intend to submit to Extras are
> here (built/tested on FC3):
> 
> http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/fedora/extras/jigdo/
> 
> To recreate the original CD/DVD ISO images from your file tree:

Using chuck's jigdo template for fc4t2 dvd - and my rawhide mirror  
(updated last night around midnight) - here is a screenshot of jigdo  
demonstrating just how effective it is:

http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fc4t2jigdo.png

After telling it to scan my mirror of rawhide, it found 1562 of the  
1820 files on the DVD image. That's 86% of the DVD image that I don't  
have to download because I already have it - and as an added bonus, for  
my "DVD Challenged" box, after the DVD is assembled, mount the iso, and  
create the CD images very quickly by having jigdo-lite scan the DVD  
image.

-- 
Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/






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