For some reason on my laptop that currently has Mandrake 10.0, jigdo is not working when trying to download a Debian DVD image.

No matter what I enter for ftp locations, jigdo attempts to download from the local machine, i.e. the laptop.

Here's the sequence. Note that the URL had to be altered for this post to be accepted:

Downloading .jigdo file
--11:54:06-- [http]://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/dvd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo
=> 'sarge-i386-1.jigdo'
Resolving k0511sim... 172.16.48.250
Connecting to k0511sim[172.16.48.250]:5865... failed: Connection refused.
File 'sarge-i386-1.jigdo' does not exist!
[root@localhost]#


Funny thing, jigdo does work on my desktop Mandrake 9.2 PC, but it failed, saying it did not have enough space. (It did, but apparently jigdo also needed some working space as well- it was a tight fit.)

I'm tired of Mandrake; please help me try an alternative!

Try a normal download of the jigdo and the template files (via your browser or wget) and then try running it.

I have tried manually downloading the .jigdo and the .template files. Jigdo reads them and creates a jigdo-file-cache.db and debian-31-i386-binary-1.iso.list and then fails to download the individual files that go into the iso image because the localhost refuses the connection.

After downloading the 2 files you need only point jigdo to your local Debian server eg ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ . Have a good read of http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/index.html