I am going to attempt to install Potato over a 28.8/56k modem. I have downloaded and 'burned' all 15 floppies needed for the basic system, and will install that first. Then I will set up PPP, and fire up dselect (apt method). I have already done this at work (but on a T1->lan->proxy setup).
I expect that the process will take several 'over-night' runs. You don't need to download 650mb worth of stuff, I suspect that for a typical debian install < 100mb of 'stuff' actually is needed to be downloaded. There are a LOT of functionaly duplicate packages, little used packages, and source packages on the CD's that few people make use of. That's why many of the books can come with Debian on a single CD, they have prunned out the stuff that most people won't use leaving a still very functional representation of Debian. In my case my dialup connection is a local call (basicly free) and $19.95 a month (for up to something like 250hrs) for the isp. This is probably typical for the average US user, I realize that in Europe and elsewhere you are probably paying more. I am still waiting on GD Flashcom to get my IDSL connection working, I had hoped it would be up by the time Potato was frozen but I will try the modem method meantime. Others have told me that they installed Debian this way, so I will try it at least once. > >Steve Greenland wrote: > >> There is nothing stopping anyone from making >>snapshot releases of >> unstable. Mirror the archive. Burn a CD. Done. >>That's what a snapshot >> is. >As one of the many people who does not have cheap, >fast, reliable >internet access, I would like to say that for me to>>> >mirror 650 MB >of debian and burn a CD of it would cost around $130 >in charges >and 2 and a half days of straight downloading if I was >lucky. >Probably much longer. >So I'd like snapshots, but really I run stable run >until the >moment frozen becomes stable at which I can get a CD >on which >everything has a good chance of working, because if >anything >breaks I'm pretty much stuffed. - ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com