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why the live image is not available as jigdo?

Asked by , Edited by Fernando C. Estrada [ Admin ]
This is the image I would like to download, but using ktorrent, it says it requires like 75 days to complete!!! I'm confortable with jigdo, I even download the xfce+lxde CD -1 image already, but for testing purposes I would like to have the live xfce+lxde image. What can I do? other than waiting the 75 days?
Download live images using HTTP, FTP or BitTorrent. Also offered as a new alternative to the standard images are live images which you can use to try Debian first and then install the contents of the image.
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marco.amadori [ Editor ]

Jigdo requires that the image size is due to the number of debian packages available on it. Then you just download a binary diff regarding the part not composed by the debian packages, like the boot loader and it’s environment, some documents and images, tipical around 10 Mb; then jigdo merges the packages with the diff to obtain the original iso.

Live images cointains just a few packages related to debian installer or not at all if the installer is not present on the image and the great part of the image is due to the presence of a preinstalled compressed system. The diff will be equal to the whole iso, so  providing a jigdo for a live system would be useless and meningless.


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