I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. I keep
hearing about bittorrent and jigdo, so I thought I'd try. Bittorrent
wouldn't connect to something; after it had failed for over half an hour, I
concluded it wasn't going anywhere and switched to jigdo. I started a
download of debian-testing-i386-binary-1.jigdo from a debian mirror here in
UK. It downloaded stuff - as far as I could see in batches of ten files -
for about four hours, then said
Aaargh - 288 files could not be downloaded. This should not
happen! Depending on the problem, it may help to retry downloading
the missing files.
and a lot of other stuff too. Restarting with either the same or different
mirrors gives the same result. The error also suggests
As a last resort, you could try to complete the CD image download
by fetching the remaining data with rsync.
but that sounds a tiresome proceedure. I looked at the directory listings
on the mirror, and they haven't just changed to a new build -- the same
files are still there.
My questions to all you jigdo-familiars are
- Is this a common problem?
- Perhaps there is an easy solution?
- What is the advantage of jigdo? As far as I can see it downloads at
pretty much a normal speed, using a single connection to a single mirror.
It's true I was getting a stupidly slow download the old fashioned way
last night (I left it running overnight and only got 1GB of the dvd iso
image after more than 8 hours), but I expect that was just a busy server.
TIA
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richard
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