On 8 January 2013 20:59, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Doug wrote: > > Markos wrote: > > >I don't have any experience with jigdo or torrents. > > > > Some years ago I was trying to install distro with jigdo, and > > gave up. I have never seen such a confusing, stupid thing > > in my life! If the program is not available as a straight > > download and burn, don't bother with it. > > Jigdo has improved greatly from the early days where it needed to be > manually driven. Now it is very similar to bittorrent versions. > > If you are only ever downloading one image then it is easier to > download a simple image. But that takes a long time and causes a high > load on the single server feeding you and 10,000 of your closest > friends the same image. After doing that twenty times you start > looking for faster and more efficient ways to do this. Jigdo and > Bittorrent are huge improvements. > > # apt-get install jigdo-file > > $ mkdir jigdo-stuff > $ cd jigdo-stuff > $ jigdo-lite --noask > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-6.0.6-amd64-CD-1.jigdo > ...lots of output... > > $ ls -ldog debian-6.0.6-amd64-CD-1.iso > -rw-rw-r-- 1 678428672 Jan 8 13:56 debian-6.0.6-amd64-CD-1.iso > > It is quite easy. But generally I use the bittorrent images. If you > have a fast local mirror then jigdo is faster. But bittorrent for > current images is faster for the general case. Six of one and a half > dozen for the other. > > $ mkdir bittorrent-stuff > $ cd bittorrent-stuff > $ btdownloadcurses > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/amd64/bt-cd/debian-6.0.6-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent > ...lots of output... > ...Same thing, debian-6.0.6-amd64-CD-1.iso same as before... > > Bob >
I find it much faster than bit-torrent but I think my ISP throttle traffic more so if one sets the mirror to http.debian.net rather than setting it your self -- About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259
