Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Haroldo Stenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Don't rely on this file size's change. It doesn't have any relation with > > download progress, neither with completeness-to-the-moment of the > > image itself. The image will be complete when jigdo tells you that. > > it would've been nice for the docs to mention this! >
Yes, I think we could contibute some changes to the docs. > > I don't understand why the Debian community seems to ignore all > > jigdo-related questions. Jigdo is being advertised in the website, but > > when one asks about a doubt on the mailing-lists, or in the #debian > > irc channel, these questions don't receive any attention at all. > > i noticed this -- before posting to debian-user, i looked through the > archives of debian-user and debian-cd. it was /very/ difficult to find > any question which got a reply. to be frank, i wasn't expecting an > answer. i guess i got lucky. thank you! :) > Yeah! You were luckier than I was :-) I saw than lonely unanswered question and felt like sharing what I had learned. > > I wonder what's happening here. Is it that people don't rely on Jigdo > > yet to download, ignoring the website's note on the convenience of > > using Jigdo over full CD image downloading? Is it that there isn't > > enough Jigdo knowledge yet? Is it just my own biased perception? > > i suspect people aren't use jigdo yet. i'm the first person to try it > from our user group, and we have some pretty hard core debian fans in > the group. > Yes, this must be the case. It happens that many people are long time Debian users, and don't need to make fresh full CD images of woody, they just use apt-get and turn their systems into full blown woody/sid ones. Just the ones of us who need to install in many computers and haven't bought images somewhere *need* jigdo. > the connection to hungry blows big chunks. it took almost 2 days to > download just binary-1. after reading the debian website, i got sold on > jigdo. but i have the oddest feeling that very few people are actually > using it. > I had the same feeling. > one last question -- if we can't > judge the file size of the .tmp file, is there any way of gauging how > far along the download i'm at? jigdo's been doing its thing for nearly > 12 hours. i have no concept of whether i'm at the 9% completed mark or > the 99% completed mark. > > do you know of any way to tell? at least with binary images you have > some idea of an estimated time to completion. > I fear there is no sure easy way :-( In a 64kb/s inet line, I spent about three days to complete the download. I couldn't beleive my eyes when that happened! Let's continue in touch Uruguay (uy) is a country with coasts to the Atlantic Ocean and the Río de la Plata, east Argentina, and south Brazil. We have a very active Linux community here, and some of us are Debian users. Thanks for asking! Best regards, Haroldo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
