It's a special cd builder you can download, and then you tell the program the link to the .jidgo file and it builds the image for you. and you can customise it if you want to It's actually pretty cool, and when it downloads all the debian packages, you can specify different mirrors and stuff so you get the best speed.

Jigsaw Download homepage: http://atterer.net/jigdo/ Debian CD images via jigdo: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

On Friday 17 December 2004 03:24 pm, Tom Bruno wrote:

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Nevermind i figured it out.

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Jeremy Turner wrote: | On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:24:46PM -0600, Tom Bruno wrote: | |>Nevermind i figured it out. | | | Jigdo is a way of building a Debian install CD with your own custom set | of packages downloaded. | | http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/ | | I could never get it working myself. I always used the net installers | and pulled the packages down from mirrors. My last install was from a | USB memory key. Now that was just too geeky. =) | | Jeremy

You need two files. The .jigdo file and a matching .template file in order for it to work. I've used it many times.

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