Hi, mick crane wrote: > What's the best appropriate means then to fetch mirror and then only fetch > differences to local copy ? wget does that doesn't it ?
That's indeed an old selling point of Jigdo: No need to download packages which you already have. But you need a pair of .jigdo and .template files which Debian produces for its ISOs in order to get a new download list. And in the end the new ISO will be as big as if all packages had been downloaded. Whatever, Jigdo might have a role in this thread. Peter wrote: > Do you see any drawbacks if I copy the 3 DVD of Debian 10 on each machine > initially, mount them and use them if I want to to install something e.g > nano at some point ? Should work. But you might get better performance if you unpack the ISO's "pool" trees into a common "pool" tree on hard disk. One level of mount less. Jigdo could bring you bigger single ISOs for either of the approaches. 16 GB: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-16G/ 25 GB: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/ 50 GB: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-dlbd/ (I wonder what software ends up in DLBD-2 or BD-4 ...) Have a nice day :) Thomas
