On Tue 12 Apr 2016 at 20:16:05 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, > containing > 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 > bytes. > Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use checksums or > something > like that, but I don't know anything about that<sigh> ]
The CD FAQ https://www.debian.org/CD/ would guide you. > Second, I'd like to revive my ftp skills. I could access ftp.debian.org, and > move around in it, and download some files. But I'd like to use ftp to > download the two .isos given above, and I couldn't find them. Can someone > give me the path to these two .isos? I'll try using ftp to get them(again) Use cdimage.debian.org > Finally, jigdo. Ugh. I grabbed a file jigdo-bin-0.7.3.tar.bz2 and tried to > unpack it. tar worked for an hour, couldn't do it. ! ? ! ? Read the tar manual for extracting files compressed with bzip2.
