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Ian Burrell
ianburrell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 17:28:01 UTC 2006
On 10/5/06, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
>
> There exists this "jigdo", or "Jigsaw Download", project.
> http://www.atterer.net/jigdo/
> It allows to download "custom images". It requires a support
> on a server side and I never really used it, so I cannot tell
> how it works in practice, but it sounds interesting.
>
Jigdo creates an ISO image from a description file and the contained
files. It is handy when you already have all the files. In the world
before bittorrent, it was easier to mirror a repository of packages
instead of the ISO.
Jigdo doesn't help with creating the ISO image. mkisofs is still
needed for that. It can help with distributing the image.
- Ian
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