Hi, on occasion of a user question on debian-cd "Blueray Disk image" https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2018/01/msg00010.html i exercised the whole procedure of Jigdo download by help of Debian LiveCD:
debian-live-9.3.0-amd64-xfce.iso It is bumpy. (But at least there is a terminal starter icon.) I Cc Luca Biella who initially asked the question. Maybe my ride helps him with his endeavor and maybe he can report about his experience with Live CD and MS-Windows hard disk. As was already noticed by Rick Thomas in above thread, jigdo-lite is not pre-installed. So the first step is to do: sudo apt-get update apt-get install jigdo-file The "processing triggers" part lasted nearly a minute. (The system was booted from an old 2 GB USB stick at USB-2. Reads with about 5 MB/s, writes with about 3 MB/s.) The filemanager mounted me the 230 GB partition of my olde test Lenny and so i could learn its device address from command "mount". Out of stubborn tradition i mounted it via sudo as /mnt/lenny and went to its traditional DVD storage cd /mnt/lenny/dvdbuffer Then i used the web browser (from starter icon) and Google "debian jigdo-bd" to locate the download site. I copied the URL and ran jigdo-lite with input https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/debian-9.3.0-amd64-BD-1.jigdo Here i had to circumvent the allergy of jigdo-lite against https which has been fixed in december by jigdo 0.7.3-5: * jigdo-lite: Cope with https URLs. Closes: #865864. The installed jigdo-lite silently skips the attempt to download and then says File `https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/debian-9.3.0-amd64-BD-1.jigdo' does not exist! The workaround is simple. Fetch the files to simulate the situation after an interrupted run (it is quite rugged with resuming): wget https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/debian-9.3.0-amd64-BD-1.jigdo wget https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/debian-9.3.0-amd64-BD-1.template Now jigdo-lite gets to the question about "files" and mirrors. I used as input: <empty line> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ Regrettably there is no overall progress indication. I could not even find a network throughput monitor in the XFCE desktop. So i installed xosview. Now it is fetching packages. 5.5 MB/s throughput. Sometimes long latency. Sorry mirror. For once you have to stand my giant suckling. Half an hour later, i stand in front of a screen locker and have to google on my workstation for login and password https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30842216/debian-8-live-cd-what-is-the-standard-login-and-password proposes "user" "live" which works. Ok. The download still runs. But since the template was already inflated to .iso.tmp with full image size, i have few means to see how far it is. With 2.5 MB/s effectively it should be done in barely 3 hours ... 2 hours 28 minutes later it is complete and the ISO is verified. I run xfburn & which recognizes the DVD burner and also that the BD image will not fit on the inserted DVD+RW. Because i am too lazy to carry a BD burner to the test machine i burn a smaller DVD image instead. (If xfburn would for some reason not work with BD media: sudo apt-get install xorriso xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 -eject debian-9.3.0-amd64-BD-1.iso ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I deem it desirable that Debian Live gets advertised for this task. The MS-Windows version of Jigdo download software is very old meanwhile http://atterer.org/sites/atterer/files/2009-08/jigdo/jigdo-win-0.7.2.zip It lasted several hours yesterday until wget finally succeeded to connect and to download it. Further, at least debian-cd does not seem to have the experience to advise about MS-Windows or MacOS. A Debian GNU/Linux based opportunity would be much better supportable. How about a wiki page to which the debian-cd Jigdo download pages could point ? - Maybe somebody with more XFCE experience could streamline my above method to get write access to a hard disk partition. One would have to test this with partitions of MS-Windows and MacOS. - Some tangible advise should be given for the mirrors. E.g. to look at https://www.debian.org/mirror/list (I learned mine from entering "de" into the "mirror" question of jigdo-lite. So i got a list of .de mirrors. But that's quite rough for the normal GUI addict.) - The best known version of jigdo-file/jigdo-lite should be pre-installed in DVD sized Live ISOs, unless Live suffers from extreme space shortage. Opinions ? Wiki snippets ? Have a nice day :) Thomas
