Re: Two questions

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On Tue 12 Apr 2016 at 20:16:05 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:

> First, about my .iso downloads.  I have  debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, containing
> 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 bytes.
> Are the byte counts correct?  [ Yes, I know I should use checksums or something
> like that, but I don't know anything about that<sigh>  ]

The CD FAQ

  https://www.debian.org/CD/

would guide you.

> Second,  I'd like to revive my ftp skills.  I could access ftp.debian.org, and
> move around in it, and download some files.  But I'd like to use ftp to
> download the two .isos given above, and I couldn't find them.  Can someone
> give me the path to these two .isos?  I'll try using ftp to get them(again)

Use

  cdimage.debian.org

> Finally, jigdo.   Ugh.  I grabbed a file jigdo-bin-0.7.3.tar.bz2 and tried to
> unpack it.  tar worked for an hour, couldn't do it.  ! ? ! ?

Read the tar manual for extracting files compressed with bzip2.

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