JIGDO-EASY2WIN README
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1. What is jigdo-easy2win?

   Jigdo-easy2win is an easy, menu-operated fullscreen textmode front-end
   that uses the robust and efficient jigdo scheme (`Jigsaw Download') to
   download Debian CD images, or anything else offered in jigdo format.
   Jigdo-easy is an extended version of jigdo-lite by Richard Atterer.

2. Anything I need to know before running jigdo-easy2win?

   No, just run it. Well, in case it wasn't clear already, the downloaded
   image plus some temporary data will always be placed in the same
   directory that jigdo-easy2win is in, so make sure you have about 700 MB
   of free disk space there.

3. How do I start jigdo-easy2win?

   Double-click on the file named `runme' or `runme.bat'. 

   Be sure to carefully read all messages on screen. You can stop reading
   this README now. Just try it and if it works, don't come back here.

4. Any special system requirements?

   Jigdo-easy2win includes Cygwin technology which is advertised as
   running on "all non-beta versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the
   exception of Windows CE."

   We have successfully downloaded CD images with jigdo-easy2win on
   Windows 95 and Windows 2000 (which is the successor to the NT versions).

5. How can I get jigdo-easy2win to run as fast as possible?

   Close all other programs and run jigdo-easy2win in full-screen mode.

6. I need to stop the download, or: I accidentally pressed the Reset button.

   You can stop the download at any time, with Ctrl-C, by (forcibly)
   closing the window it's running in, or by rebooting. To resume, just
   select the same image to download, and the download will continue
   where it was interrupted.

7. After downloading a lot of files it says it still needs more.

   As it also says, try again with another Debian FTP mirror. Not all
   mirrors are equally up to date.

   If that doesn't work, chances are that the required files are not
   available at this time. Try again in a few days and you'll either see
   that the required files are available again, or that a new image has
   been created.

   In the latter case, you can probably still re-use the files that were
   downloaded in the incomplete image, simply because that image is
   logically correct. The missing files will show up just like they
   should, with the correct length, but will contain all zeros.
   You can burn the incomplete .tmp file to a CD (CD-RW preferred), and
   point jigdo-easy2win's `Local files' question to it. All files that
   are useful for the new image will then be fetched from the incomplete
   CD and will not be downloaded again.

8. The screen sometimes flickers and/or displays things so fast that I
   can't read it.

   These are normal diagnostic messages, you can safely ignore them.
   Anything you need to read will wait for you pressing a key to
   continue.

9. Can I use jigdo-easy2win to create my own CD images?

   No. Jigdo-easy2win is a download tool, just like Netscape, GetRight and
   Gozilla. To create your own Debian CD images, you need to run a Debian
   system and use the debian-cd package from:
     http://packages.debian.org/debian-cd

   After creating your own image, you _can_ use jigdo to distribute it;
   this needs only a few MBs of your own web space, and can re-use the
   200+ Debian FTP mirrors for the bulk of the traffic.

10. What parts of Cygwin does jigdo-easy2win use?

    It uses files from the following packages, that were downloaded
    from http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cygwin/ (latest/ and contrib/):

    bash-2.05a-2.tar.bz2
    clear-1.0.tar.gz
    cygwin-1.3.6-6.tar.bz2
    fileutils-4.1-1.tar.bz2
    grep-2.4.2-1.tar.gz
    gzip-1.3.2-1.tar.bz2
    libintl-0.10.38-3.tar.bz2
    sed-3.02-1.tar.gz
    sh-utils-2.0-2.tar.gz
    textutils-2.0.16-1.tar.bz2
    wget-1.7-1.tar.bz2

    For more information on Cygwin, see http://www.cygwin.com. Note that
    you do NOT have to install the complete Cygwin environment in order to
    run jigdo-easy2win; all needed components are already in the
    jigdo-easy2win package.


                                                                   April 2002
                                                                 J.A. Bezemer
                                          <J.A.Bezemer@opensourcepartners.nl>
                                                            All questions to:
                                                 <debian-cd@lists.debian.org>


 Jigdo-easy2win is Copyright (C) 2001-2002  Richard Atterer and J.A. Bezemer,
 is released under GNU GPL2 (the file COPYING).
 Jigdo-file is Copyright (C) 2001-2002  Richard Atterer, and licensed under
 GNU GPL2.
 All Cygwin components are copyright by their respective copyright holders
 and are licensed under GNU GPL>=2. All mentioned trademarks and/or
 registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.