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need jigdo help
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gene heskett
2024-09-21 10:50:01 UTC
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Hi all, attempting to obtain a netinstall for trixie
ls of working directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 46282 Sep 21 06:22
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 149573718 Sep 21 06:23
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template

command issued and results after installing jigdo-file:(word wrapped by
tbird)

***@coyote:~/linuxcnc_trixie_install$ jigdo-file mi
--template=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
Will not create image or temporary file - try again with different input
files

What am I doing wrong?

tnx.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Thomas Schmitt
2024-09-21 11:50:02 UTC
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Hi,

I always used jigdo-lite (and described it at:
https://wiki.debian.org/JigdoOnLive#Download_one_or_more_Jigdo_ISOs
)
jigdo-lite is the official advise by Debian:
https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#how
Post by gene heskett
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
jigdo-file seems to be for production of the image from .template
and local files:
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/jigdo-file/jigdo-file.1.en.html
"MAKE-IMAGE, MI
Reads `.template' and FILES, creates image (or `imagename.tmp').
Provides a rudimentary way of reassembling images - jigdo is usually
better suited for this task. However, in contrast to jigdo, no
`.jigdo' file is required."

Unless you have a local Debian package mirror reachable by your
filesystem, you will have to obtain the beef of the ISO image from the
internet.
A .jigdo file contains URLs like
[Servers]
Debian=http://us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/Debian/
Debian=http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20230611T102113Z/ --try-last
as package sources of last resort.
jigdo-lite will ask for the URL of your favorite Debian mirror server
as package source for first tries.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas
Tom Furie
2024-09-21 13:40:02 UTC
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Post by gene heskett
Hi all, attempting to obtain a netinstall for trixie
--template=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
To recrate an ISO from jigdo you probbly want to look at jigdo-lite, from
the same package. As far as I know, jigdo-file is for creating the jigdo
files.

Cheers,
Tom
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me out. -Samuel Goldwyn
Andrew M.A. Cater
2024-09-21 15:10:02 UTC
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Post by gene heskett
Hi all, attempting to obtain a netinstall for trixie
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 46282 Sep 21 06:22
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 149573718 Sep 21 06:23
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
command issued and results after installing jigdo-file:(word wrapped by
tbird)
As others have said: you need to use jigdo-lite rather than jigdo-file.

Download the netinst<dot>template and netinst<dot>Jigdo files from

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/

as below:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.jigdo

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.template

Run jigdo-lite in a terminal as root

It will prompt you for the location of the jigdo file - probably something like /home/gene/Downloads/debian-12.7.0-amd64.jigdo

It should prompt you for the location of a Debian mirror - give it a URL for
your nearest Debian mirror or http://deb.debian.org/debian/

It will look in the directory you gave for the .jigdo file to find the
.template and should not need to redownload this.

It should then "just work" - I've just been doing exactly this to check.

All the very best, as ever,

Andrew Cater
Post by gene heskett
--template=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
Will not create image or temporary file - try again with different input
files
What am I doing wrong?
tnx.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Thomas Schmitt
2024-09-21 15:20:01 UTC
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Hi,
Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
Run jigdo-lite in a terminal as root
Why as root ?
I never had to be root when i used it.


(Actually Gene Heskett was not too wrong when using jigdo-file, because
jigdo-lite itself uses jigdo-file at multiple occasions.
https://sources.debian.org/src/jigdo/0.8.2-1/scripts/jigdo-lite )


Have a nice day :)

Thomas
gene heskett
2024-09-21 17:40:01 UTC
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Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
Post by gene heskett
Hi all, attempting to obtain a netinstall for trixie
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 46282 Sep 21 06:22
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 149573718 Sep 21 06:23
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
command issued and results after installing jigdo-file:(word wrapped by
tbird)
As others have said: you need to use jigdo-lite rather than jigdo-file.
Download the netinst<dot>template and netinst<dot>Jigdo files from
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.jigdo
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.template
Run jigdo-lite in a terminal as root
It will prompt you for the location of the jigdo file - probably something like /home/gene/Downloads/debian-12.7.0-amd64.jigdo
It should prompt you for the location of a Debian mirror - give it a URL for
your nearest Debian mirror or http://deb.debian.org/debian/
It will look in the directory you gave for the .jigdo file to find the
.template and should not need to redownload this.
It should then "just work" - I've just been doing exactly this to check.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
Thank you Andy, obviously jigdo-file was wrong command. already printed
FFR. IMO the man pages suck, no obvious cross correlation to guide the
user toward success. Needs at least a see also section at the bottom.
Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
Post by gene heskett
--template=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
Will not create image or temporary file - try again with different input
files
What am I doing wrong?
tnx.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
gene heskett
2024-09-21 19:10:02 UTC
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Post by gene heskett
Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
Post by gene heskett
Hi all, attempting to obtain a netinstall for trixie
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene     46282 Sep 21 06:22
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 149573718 Sep 21 06:23
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
command issued and results after installing jigdo-file:(word wrapped by
tbird)
As others have said: you need to use jigdo-lite rather than jigdo-file.
Download the netinst<dot>template and netinst<dot>Jigdo files from
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.jigdo
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.template
Run jigdo-lite in a terminal as root
It will prompt you for the location of the jigdo file - probably
something like /home/gene/Downloads/debian-12.7.0-amd64.jigdo
It should prompt you for the location of a Debian mirror - give it a URL for
your nearest Debian mirror or http://deb.debian.org/debian/
It will look in the directory you gave for the .jigdo file to find the
.template and should not need to redownload this.
It should then "just work" - I've just been doing exactly this to check.
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
Well, since its looking like rain which we need badly, and I'm still
barefoot but bandaged to the knees, I'm stuck playing. The linuxcnc
people have a hybrid iso for 12.6, which should update to 12.7, so I've
pulled it and burnt it to a dvd+rw.

But burning it, I spotted xfburn in the menu's, looks nice but when will
it actually be able to burn an iso???

So I had to fall back to k3b which worked, once I had found the iso. The
selection window is only 6 or so filenames tall, mouse wheel scrolls 50
names at a time, making, when there are 1000+ entries in my home dir,
very frustrating. The right hand scroll buttons only work when they want
to, so it took me >15 minutes to find the file & get the write started.
k3b has existed in this condition of making it near impossible to find
the iso to be burnt for what seems like a decade. Ingo can't be
bothered to fix a huge usability problem.

I have 100 count spindles of every type of cd/dvd ever made, but have
not stored them in closed, dark spaces. Long term exposure to the room
lights apparently erases the ID track. The only type surviving a decade
and still working as advertised is some sony brand dvd+rw's.

So when does xfburn grow erase/write abilities?
Post by gene heskett
Thank you Andy, obviously jigdo-file was wrong command. already printed
FFR. IMO the man pages suck, no obvious cross correlation to guide the
user toward success.  Needs at least a see also section at the bottom.
Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
Post by gene heskett
--template=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
Will not create image or temporary file - try again with different input
files
What am I doing wrong?
tnx.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law
respectable.
  - Louis D. Brandeis
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Andrew M.A. Cater
2024-09-21 19:40:01 UTC
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Post by gene heskett
Post by gene heskett
Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
Well, since its looking like rain which we need badly, and I'm still
barefoot but bandaged to the knees, I'm stuck playing. The linuxcnc people
have a hybrid iso for 12.6, which should update to 12.7, so I've pulled it
and burnt it to a dvd+rw.
So when does xfburn grow erase/write abilities?
It may have them - I haven't used it.

I quite like the command line utility growisofs for an ISO image:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Again, this should "just work" and is essentially the Example from the
man page.

xorriso should also work, of course, and Thomas can help on that one :)

At this point, I've long since given up on CD or DVD physical media except
as a very last resort.

As mentioned extensively on this list in the last ten days or so:

dd if=/home/Gene/debian-12.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX obs=4M oflag=sync
status=progress

where /dev/sdX is wherever the USB stick is recognised when you stick it in.
( mount on its own will tell you what file systems are recognised).

If the USB stick automounts, unmount it before running the command above.

All the best, as ever,

Andy Cater
Post by gene heskett
Post by gene heskett
Thank you Andy, obviously jigdo-file was wrong command. already printed
FFR. IMO the man pages suck, no obvious cross correlation to guide the
user toward success.  Needs at least a see also section at the bottom.
Post by Andrew M.A. Cater
Post by gene heskett
--template=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.template
Found 0 of the 1001 files required by the template
Will not create image or temporary file - try again with different input
files
What am I doing wrong?
tnx.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
  - Louis D. Brandeis
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
gene heskett
2024-09-23 00:20:01 UTC
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Post by gene heskett
But burning it, I spotted xfburn in the menu's, looks nice but when
will it actually be able to burn an iso???
If remembering correctly from a while ago had to click in the boxes for
write speed and some other thing for xfburn to show its defaults, then
it worked.
(bookworm)
mick
Whoever wrote the error msg should have pointed to that instead of
claiming burning has not been implemented.

I'll have to give that a try, thanks mick.
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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