On 2/15/2020 9:32 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: > When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of > course, comes with Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a > Debian newbie, I'm also new to jigdo, but want to use it because it > seems the preferred way to download (and anyway I want the full Debian > experience). >
What do you mean by that? > Unfortunately, running jidgo-lite on Windows is a minor pain (because > Windows no longer provides a context menu option to > open-command-window-in-this-folder), but even after going through the > rigamarole to run it, jigdo bails out with error message, > >> "child 1124(0x1F0) died before initialization with status code >> 0xC0000142" > > Could someone help me interpret and fix that? - or should I just drop > jigdo and look for a regular download of a live CD? > Only you knows what you want, however, downloading a live cd or netinst cd iso would be my first choise. If I may, download a ready CD/DVD (first DVD only) of Debian and start from there. -- John Doe
