Jigdo instructions, please

Simon Slater pyevet at aapt.net.au
Tue Feb 19 23:57:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 03:07 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> ... regarding my jigdo instructions, i'm guessing ...
> 
> > I have heard of "mount -o loop". But the instructions say one should
> > insert a DVD, which I take to mean that one should insert a DVD.
> 
> if this is meant to be a criticism of my HOWTO on jigdo, i can see
> your point.  however, to be fair, right near the top, i do in fact
> emphasize:
> 
> "Please read the rest of this page before trying any of it. Seriously.
> I mean it. I'm not kidding."
> 
> and further down the page, i also make it clear:
> 
> "Note that if you have directory locations for other files that might
> save time in the reconstruction process, just keep entering those
> locations as you're prompted one at a time until you're done, and
> finally just hit ENTER to let the construction begin. For the sake of
> this exercise, we'll just assume you're working only with what's on
> the original release DVD."
> 
>   so while i don't come ***right out*** and explain how to work with
> an ISO image rather than a physical DVD, that above text should have
> been enough for most people to draw the obvious logical inference and
> to simply mount the ISO image somewhere and use its mount point as a
> directory location.
> 
> > This is not always - or even usually - equivalent to "mount -o
> > loop".
> 
> inserting a DVD is *rarely* equivalent to running "mount -o loop".
> so, as i said, i'll admit that i didn't spell out, in excruciating
> detail, how to take advantage of an ISO image, but that shouldn't have
> been an intellectual stretch given everything else on that page.
> 
> > The jigdo documentation is not very good, which is not surprising if
> > the people writing it share your approach.
> 
> i'm not sure what that last comment is supposed to imply but, if
> you're feeling ambitious, there's lots of empty web page space out
> there -- go wild.  we can always use additional good documentation.
> 
Just for a little clarification (my brain cells haven't got anywhere
near pedantry yet).  On a laptop with F7 with a F8 install DVD complete
with depsolve bugs, do I copy the DVD contents to the hard drive and
point Jigdo(-lite?) to that and burn a new install DVD when Jigdo is
finished; or can I use the DVD as the place for Jigdo to scan?  But then
how do I make new install media?


-- 
Regards
Simon




More information about the fedora-list mailing list