Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:11:52AM +, Tom Goulet wrote:
> Jigdo (er, jigdo-lite anyways) stops after downloading ten packages, and
> them makes an ISO image.  It seemed to me that jigdo-lite was
> malfunctioning.  That would not have happened with Wget.

 jigdo just does things differently.

> > I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the 
> > working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.
> 
> That sounds incredibly tedious.  And, I don't need to do that with Wget.

It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite, 
dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW, jigdo-easy is a "fork" of jigdo-lite.)

You probably noticed a few "404 not found" messages and thought that the
download would fail because of them. That is not the case - jigdo
*automatically* switches mirrors in this case! Just let it run and do its
thing.

Cheers,

  Richard

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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:11, Tom Goulet wrote:
> I'll try to get across my somewhat frustrating experience and then give
> up.
>
> > It's something you want; not a problem.
>
> It's something *Debian* wants, not me.
>
> > Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation done!
>
> I don't need to do that with Wget.
>
Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that 
is dropped every 4 hours using wget?

At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.

Bob


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Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi!

I'm happy to announce that we'll be weekly creating netinst cds for testing
(the future sarge distribution), this cds are made using Tollef Fog Heen's
daily images of the debian-installer, like the full images we are currently
building.

The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is, at...
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
currently only i386 images are being built, and given the status of
debian-installer, they may or may not work at all, the purpose of this cds
is just testing our new installer.

We have chosen to build two different netinst images:

sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 41 megs aprox
sarge-i386-netinst.iso  83 megs aprox

The first one only has debian-installer and the doc on the cd, needing
network access to be able to install the base system.
The second one has also the base system on it, so that it can be posible to
complete a basic install our testing distribution from the cd.

I have been able complete a installation out of the cdrom using the netinst
cd and also an installation using the net and the businesscard cd, but I had
to do some stuff manually.

I hope that this images serve for the debian-installer guys to get good
complete reports on the problems of our new installation method, and that
this helps us go a little bit faster towards Sarge.

Keep up the good work, guys!

Regards...
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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote:

> Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that
> is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
>
> At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.

isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ?  and/or isn't
resume support part of the http 1.1 spec ? i'm not too sure about
the latter, but i was sure apache supported it.

regards,

-jason


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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:00, jason andrade wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote:
> > Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection
> > that is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
> >
> > At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.
>
> isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ?  and/or isn't
> resume support part of the http 1.1 spec ? i'm not too sure about
> the latter, but i was sure apache supported it.
>
> regards,
>
> -jason

I just would not know. In practice for me using Mozilla 1.0, resume after a 
break generally does not happen.

The beauty of jigdo is that I could download my iso file by file if I needed 
to. From a more practical point of view it was quite easy to produce a set of 
7 - 3.0r1 cds starting with my existing set of 3.0r0 cds and using my dialup 
connection 4 hours at a time.

Of course it was more bothersome than just `wget blah-blah.iso` but without 
being on a broadband connection I don't think that I would even attempt to 
use wget for that.

Bob


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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 04:11 AM 1/26/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote:

--snip--


I don't need to do that with Wget.


It appears that you really *like* wget and that no tool other than wget 
will keep you happy. (Jigdo uses wget also.)

My advice then is to abandon jigdo - either the jigdo-lite version or the 
jigdo-easy version that I favor.

--snip--

Jigdo (er, jigdo-lite anyways) stops after downloading ten packages, and
them makes an ISO image.  It seemed to me that jigdo-lite was
malfunctioning.  That would not have happened with Wget.


If this bother you (it bothered me) change the script where it says 
download 10 files at a time. (Caution: there is a trailing blank on that line.)
I recommend you use wget...

> I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the
> working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.

That sounds incredibly tedious.  And, I don't need to do that with Wget.


...then use wget


I tried three sites, they all worked, they just didn't have all the
packages.  Another problem that wouldn't happen with Wget.


...then use  wget...

> ...I've described what I do. It's easy.


I wouldn't have to do that with Wget either.


...then use wget


> >- I had to find an Rsync mirror
I wouldn't have had to do that with Wget either.


...then use wget


I still wouldn't have had to do that with Wget.
> This *is* tough - use jigdo instead.


...then use wget...


Please excuse me while I yell.  JIGDO DIDN'T WORK.


Pardon me ... Jidgo does work ... it just doesn't work exactly the same as 
wget.
In your situation, I recommend  wget.

*PAY ATTENTION* USE WGET!!

It's difficult when the computer you're running Jigdo on is not in your
house.  And I would have been happy enough with the integrity of the
file if Wget had proceeded uninterrupted that I would not have needed to
bother the MD5 sum.


I'm on dial-up and my friend has a cable modem "all-you-can-eat" 
connection. (240KBps from Los Angeles to Amsterdam last week.)

My friend runs Windows, by the way.

Regards, Gordon 



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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:


> > I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the
> > working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.

It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite,
dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW, jigdo-easy is a "fork" of jigdo-lite.)


Dunno ... I found an automated search easier than a manual search ... I do 
the same thing when my dial-up is interrupted 20 MB into a 33 MB file  ...I 
use ftp to get the rest of the file ... and then restart jigdo. Sometimes I 
fat-finger stuff and use rsync to straighten things out.

Regards, Gordon 



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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:36 AM 1/27/2003 +1100, bob parker wrote:


Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that
is dropped every 4 hours using wget?

At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.

Bob


I think so ... I'll run jigo-easy (and hence wget) in the background while 
I compose e-mail and I'll notice the send/receive LEDs have stopped ... 
when I look at the jigdo window has auto-resumed 2 or 3 times.

I know that I can get a full cd on a dialup connection that drops every few 
hours with ncFtp,(I do it)and therefore I suspect wget will do it too. I'll 
try this -  a nice small project.

Regards, Gordon



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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:00 AM 1/27/2003 +1000, jason andrade wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote:

> Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that
> is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
>
> At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.

isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ?  and/or isn't
resume support part of the http 1.1 spec ? i'm not too sure about
the latter, but i was sure apache supported it.

regards,

-jason


I saw this subject on :

http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/


and found a shareware program "GetRight" to investigate it. This program 
has advice screens that indicate if a web site supports "resume." I 
concluded that many sites running M$ II$ have not turned on "resume." 
Further advice and opinion are welcome.

Regards, Gordon 



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Re: Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:

> The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is, at...
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
> currently only i386 images are being built, and given the status of
> debian-installer, they may or may not work at all, the purpose of this cds
> is just testing our new installer.

hi santiago,

can you create a separate rsync share for the cdimage/testing archives
for mirrors ? even if it is unlisted ?

will the cd images be be built nightly/weekly ?

regards,

-jason


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Automatic download mode for jigdo?

2003-01-26 Thread Scalar
I understand this is all a volunteer effort and so you can't
expect installing Debian to be as easy as installing, say,
Windows 98, but.. :)

It would be nice if jigdo could do most of the hunting for
files by itself, rather than me having to supply it with
components.

Personally, I rather dislike the way I'm supposed to guess
which mirror I should use, because most mirror lists provide
far too little information for me to know if my choice is
really a "good" one.

A good mirror to me is a close mirror.. one that does not
necessary tie up the Internet too much, or travel further
than necessary to get the job done.

Except just geographical information is often not good
enough. If I visit the website of the school where I work,
it is physically 15 miles away from me. But by network, the
signal actually goes south some 500 miles to the main hub in
Chicago, then up to Minneapolis, then back over here some
200 miles to me.. probably a good thousand miles round-trip.

If I were running a Debian mirror there at school, it would
in fact be better to IGNORE it and use one in Chicago
instead, since "by wire" the Chicago mirror would actually
by "closer". But if I had not done manual traceroutes, I
likely would not have known which one is "really" a close
mirror for me.


I think it'd be far better if jigdo were to just give the
user a generalized list of continent-level regions, then
narrow it by one level, and determine the next step of which
mirrors to use by itself.

(Actually, I think it'd be nice if most of the process could
be automated so the user needs only to type a few characters
while jigdo auto-finds and auto-downloads whatever it needs
by itself. But this is probably asking for too much of a
volunteer effort.)

Something like this, perhaps?


AUTOMATIC JIGDO

To help Jigdo find a mirror near you, please choose the
continent nearest you:
  1. North America  5. Africa
  2. South America  6. Australia
  3. Europe 7. Antarctica
  4. Asia

Selection: 1

Please choose your general location in/around North America:
  1. Continental United States5. Alaska
  2. Canada   6. Hawaii
  3. Mexico   7. Cuba
  4. Greenland

Selection: 1

Getting regional mirror list from http://www.debian.org/mirror/list...

Checking 32 mirrors in your region. Please wait..
  Hops: 11  Ping: 147  ftp.us.debian.org
  Hops: 7   Ping: 104  ftp.debian.org
  Hops: 14  Ping: 166  ftp.egr.msu.edu
  **Cannot contact ftp.ndlug.nd.edu
  Hops: 12  Ping: 122  mirrors.rcn.net
  Hops: 9   Ping: 242  ftp.rutgers.efu
  Hops: 5   Ping: 97   linux.csua.berkeley.edu
  (...)

Saving results of mirror check..

Jigdo recommends these top five mirrors:
  1. Hops: 5   Ping: 97   linux.csua.berkeley.edu
  2. Hops: 7   Ping: 104  ftp.debian.org
  3. Hops: 11  Ping: 147  ftp.us.debian.org
  4. Hops: 12  Ping: 122  mirrors.rcn.net
  5. Hops: 13  Ping: 144  ftp.silug.org

Select one (or type 0 to choose another region): 1

Getting list of available .jigdo images...

Do you want the current distribution? y

Here are the current disitributions.
  1. DEC4. i386   7. MIPS  10. SPARC
  2. ARM5. IA64   8. PowerPC
  3. HPPA   6. M68k   9. S390  11. Sourcecode

Select one: 4

There are seven CD ISOs in the current i386 distribution:

(NOTE: You only need CD #1 to install the rest over a network)
  1. woody-i386-1  5. woody-i386-5
  2. woody-i386-2  6. woody-i386-6
  3. woody-i386-3  7. woody-i386-7
  4. woody-i386-4

Select a CD ISO to download: 1

Saving selections...

Auto-downloading .jigdo image template from nearest
mirror...

Building ISO image...

[]


ERROR downloading ISO component! Do you want Jigdo to
automatically try the next mirror nearest to you?
(Jigdo will auto-select "Yes" in 1 minute.)
Your selection:

(Auto-selected Yes.)

Building ISO image...

[]


ISO Completed.



Since this is an all-volunteer effort, I am probably
asking for too much here. But I just wanted to ask.. :)


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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Madden
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Jigdo does do large files very well. I don't do the 7cd's but I do the 
DVD. Jigdo really shines on files of this size , further :) I use 
jigdo-lite in Debian (deb package)and it 'just works'.  
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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:11:52AM +, Tom Goulet wrote:
> Jigdo (er, jigdo-lite anyways) stops after downloading ten packages, and
> them makes an ISO image.  It seemed to me that jigdo-lite was
> malfunctioning.  That would not have happened with Wget.

 jigdo just does things differently.

> > I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the 
> > working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.
> 
> That sounds incredibly tedious.  And, I don't need to do that with Wget.

It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite, 
dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW, jigdo-easy is a "fork" of jigdo-lite.)

You probably noticed a few "404 not found" messages and thought that the
download would fail because of them. That is not the case - jigdo
*automatically* switches mirrors in this case! Just let it run and do its
thing.

Cheers,

  Richard

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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:11, Tom Goulet wrote:
> I'll try to get across my somewhat frustrating experience and then give
> up.
>
> > It's something you want; not a problem.
>
> It's something *Debian* wants, not me.
>
> > Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation done!
>
> I don't need to do that with Wget.
>
Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that 
is dropped every 4 hours using wget?

At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.

Bob




Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi!

I'm happy to announce that we'll be weekly creating netinst cds for testing
(the future sarge distribution), this cds are made using Tollef Fog Heen's
daily images of the debian-installer, like the full images we are currently
building.

The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is, at...
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
currently only i386 images are being built, and given the status of
debian-installer, they may or may not work at all, the purpose of this cds
is just testing our new installer.

We have chosen to build two different netinst images:

sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 41 megs aprox
sarge-i386-netinst.iso  83 megs aprox

The first one only has debian-installer and the doc on the cd, needing
network access to be able to install the base system.
The second one has also the base system on it, so that it can be posible to
complete a basic install our testing distribution from the cd.

I have been able complete a installation out of the cdrom using the netinst
cd and also an installation using the net and the businesscard cd, but I had
to do some stuff manually.

I hope that this images serve for the debian-installer guys to get good
complete reports on the problems of our new installation method, and that
this helps us go a little bit faster towards Sarge.

Keep up the good work, guys!

Regards...
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Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote:

> Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that
> is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
>
> At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.

isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ?  and/or isn't
resume support part of the http 1.1 spec ? i'm not too sure about
the latter, but i was sure apache supported it.

regards,

-jason




Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:00, jason andrade wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote:
> > Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection
> > that is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
> >
> > At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.
>
> isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ?  and/or isn't
> resume support part of the http 1.1 spec ? i'm not too sure about
> the latter, but i was sure apache supported it.
>
> regards,
>
> -jason

I just would not know. In practice for me using Mozilla 1.0, resume after a 
break generally does not happen.

The beauty of jigdo is that I could download my iso file by file if I needed 
to. From a more practical point of view it was quite easy to produce a set of 
7 - 3.0r1 cds starting with my existing set of 3.0r0 cds and using my dialup 
connection 4 hours at a time.

Of course it was more bothersome than just `wget blah-blah.iso` but without 
being on a broadband connection I don't think that I would even attempt to 
use wget for that.

Bob




Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 04:11 AM 1/26/2003 +, Tom Goulet wrote:
--snip--
I don't need to do that with Wget.
It appears that you really *like* wget and that no tool other than wget 
will keep you happy. (Jigdo uses wget also.)

My advice then is to abandon jigdo - either the jigdo-lite version or the 
jigdo-easy version that I favor.

--snip--
Jigdo (er, jigdo-lite anyways) stops after downloading ten packages, and
them makes an ISO image.  It seemed to me that jigdo-lite was
malfunctioning.  That would not have happened with Wget.
If this bother you (it bothered me) change the script where it says 
download 10 files at a time. (Caution: there is a trailing blank on that line.)
I recommend you use wget...

> I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the
> working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.
That sounds incredibly tedious.  And, I don't need to do that with Wget.
...then use wget
I tried three sites, they all worked, they just didn't have all the
packages.  Another problem that wouldn't happen with Wget.
...then use  wget...
> ...I've described what I do. It's easy.
I wouldn't have to do that with Wget either.
...then use wget
> >- I had to find an Rsync mirror
I wouldn't have had to do that with Wget either.
...then use wget
I still wouldn't have had to do that with Wget.
> This *is* tough - use jigdo instead.
...then use wget...
Please excuse me while I yell.  JIGDO DIDN'T WORK.
Pardon me ... Jidgo does work ... it just doesn't work exactly the same as 
wget.
In your situation, I recommend  wget.

*PAY ATTENTION* USE WGET!!
It's difficult when the computer you're running Jigdo on is not in your
house.  And I would have been happy enough with the integrity of the
file if Wget had proceeded uninterrupted that I would not have needed to
bother the MD5 sum.
I'm on dial-up and my friend has a cable modem "all-you-can-eat" 
connection. (240KBps from Los Angeles to Amsterdam last week.)

My friend runs Windows, by the way.
Regards, Gordon 




Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 12:33 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the
> > working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.
It isn't necessary to google for missing files! (At least with jigdo-lite,
dunno about jigdo-easy. BTW, jigdo-easy is a "fork" of jigdo-lite.)
Dunno ... I found an automated search easier than a manual search ... I do 
the same thing when my dial-up is interrupted 20 MB into a 33 MB file  ...I 
use ftp to get the rest of the file ... and then restart jigdo. Sometimes I 
fat-finger stuff and use rsync to straighten things out.

Regards, Gordon 




Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:36 AM 1/27/2003 +1100, bob parker wrote:
Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that
is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.
Bob
I think so ... I'll run jigo-easy (and hence wget) in the background while 
I compose e-mail and I'll notice the send/receive LEDs have stopped ... 
when I look at the jigdo window has auto-resumed 2 or 3 times.

I know that I can get a full cd on a dialup connection that drops every few 
hours with ncFtp,(I do it)and therefore I suspect wget will do it too. I'll 
try this -  a nice small project.

Regards, Gordon



Re: I don't think I've ever gotten Jigdo working

2003-01-26 Thread Gordon Huff
At 02:00 AM 1/27/2003 +1000, jason andrade wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote:
> Out of curiosity can you download a full cd iso on a dialup connection that
> is dropped every 4 hours using wget?
>
> At the very least you have to find a site that supports resume.
isn't resume supported by most ftp servers nowadays ?  and/or isn't
resume support part of the http 1.1 spec ? i'm not too sure about
the latter, but i was sure apache supported it.
regards,
-jason
I saw this subject on :
http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
and found a shareware program "GetRight" to investigate it. This program 
has advice screens that indicate if a web site supports "resume." I 
concluded that many sites running M$ II$ have not turned on "resume." 
Further advice and opinion are welcome.

Regards, Gordon 




Re: Official testing NetInst cds being weekly built

2003-01-26 Thread jason andrade
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:

> The images will be accesible by the full ones, this is, at...
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
> currently only i386 images are being built, and given the status of
> debian-installer, they may or may not work at all, the purpose of this cds
> is just testing our new installer.

hi santiago,

can you create a separate rsync share for the cdimage/testing archives
for mirrors ? even if it is unlisted ?

will the cd images be be built nightly/weekly ?

regards,

-jason




Automatic download mode for jigdo?

2003-01-26 Thread Scalar
I understand this is all a volunteer effort and so you can't
expect installing Debian to be as easy as installing, say,
Windows 98, but.. :)

It would be nice if jigdo could do most of the hunting for
files by itself, rather than me having to supply it with
components.

Personally, I rather dislike the way I'm supposed to guess
which mirror I should use, because most mirror lists provide
far too little information for me to know if my choice is
really a "good" one.

A good mirror to me is a close mirror.. one that does not
necessary tie up the Internet too much, or travel further
than necessary to get the job done.

Except just geographical information is often not good
enough. If I visit the website of the school where I work,
it is physically 15 miles away from me. But by network, the
signal actually goes south some 500 miles to the main hub in
Chicago, then up to Minneapolis, then back over here some
200 miles to me.. probably a good thousand miles round-trip.

If I were running a Debian mirror there at school, it would
in fact be better to IGNORE it and use one in Chicago
instead, since "by wire" the Chicago mirror would actually
by "closer". But if I had not done manual traceroutes, I
likely would not have known which one is "really" a close
mirror for me.


I think it'd be far better if jigdo were to just give the
user a generalized list of continent-level regions, then
narrow it by one level, and determine the next step of which
mirrors to use by itself.

(Actually, I think it'd be nice if most of the process could
be automated so the user needs only to type a few characters
while jigdo auto-finds and auto-downloads whatever it needs
by itself. But this is probably asking for too much of a
volunteer effort.)

Something like this, perhaps?


AUTOMATIC JIGDO

To help Jigdo find a mirror near you, please choose the
continent nearest you:
  1. North America  5. Africa
  2. South America  6. Australia
  3. Europe 7. Antarctica
  4. Asia

Selection: 1

Please choose your general location in/around North America:
  1. Continental United States5. Alaska
  2. Canada   6. Hawaii
  3. Mexico   7. Cuba
  4. Greenland

Selection: 1

Getting regional mirror list from http://www.debian.org/mirror/list...

Checking 32 mirrors in your region. Please wait..
  Hops: 11  Ping: 147  ftp.us.debian.org
  Hops: 7   Ping: 104  ftp.debian.org
  Hops: 14  Ping: 166  ftp.egr.msu.edu
  **Cannot contact ftp.ndlug.nd.edu
  Hops: 12  Ping: 122  mirrors.rcn.net
  Hops: 9   Ping: 242  ftp.rutgers.efu
  Hops: 5   Ping: 97   linux.csua.berkeley.edu
  (...)

Saving results of mirror check..

Jigdo recommends these top five mirrors:
  1. Hops: 5   Ping: 97   linux.csua.berkeley.edu
  2. Hops: 7   Ping: 104  ftp.debian.org
  3. Hops: 11  Ping: 147  ftp.us.debian.org
  4. Hops: 12  Ping: 122  mirrors.rcn.net
  5. Hops: 13  Ping: 144  ftp.silug.org

Select one (or type 0 to choose another region): 1

Getting list of available .jigdo images...

Do you want the current distribution? y

Here are the current disitributions.
  1. DEC4. i386   7. MIPS  10. SPARC
  2. ARM5. IA64   8. PowerPC
  3. HPPA   6. M68k   9. S390  11. Sourcecode

Select one: 4

There are seven CD ISOs in the current i386 distribution:

(NOTE: You only need CD #1 to install the rest over a network)
  1. woody-i386-1  5. woody-i386-5
  2. woody-i386-2  6. woody-i386-6
  3. woody-i386-3  7. woody-i386-7
  4. woody-i386-4

Select a CD ISO to download: 1

Saving selections...

Auto-downloading .jigdo image template from nearest
mirror...

Building ISO image...

[]


ERROR downloading ISO component! Do you want Jigdo to
automatically try the next mirror nearest to you?
(Jigdo will auto-select "Yes" in 1 minute.)
Your selection:

(Auto-selected Yes.)

Building ISO image...

[]


ISO Completed.



Since this is an all-volunteer effort, I am probably
asking for too much here. But I just wanted to ask.. :)