Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

[John Grange]

Randy Welch wrote:

> Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> >
> > I cannot see any way of avoiding the initial download of that much
> > data, other than mailing out CDs, but for V90 access it is a killer
> > (gone from 50 hours to 77 hours, all going perfectly).    I thing
> > most V90 beta testers will have little option but to walk away.
> >
> I'm kind of surprised that V.90 users would download a whole linux
> distribution these days anyway.  I tried that once.   Before DSL I would
> download the distro image at work toss it on a jaz disk ( or burn a CD
> at work )  and then install it at home.
>

I am on 56.6 k conection here and was on 28.8 connection and i keep up with
it quite well using rsync, once the intitial dl is done the updates don't
take that long.

-DarkWlf