Ferris McCormick wrote: > > If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two > versions of the "minimal CD". Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is > discriminating against people who cannot see the screen, and I would > consider that to be very tacky at best. > > Someone (rdalek1967) said the problem was an extra 2.5 hours time for > download over dialup. If that is correct, we are looking at 12.5 hours > instead of 10 hours (about 25% increase, but 10 hours is a long time, > and I don't know that 12.5 hours is subjectively that much longer). > > So, to answer William's original question, one way or another we should > provide a minimal CD with the speech software on it in my opinion. > > Regards, > Ferris > > -- > Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[email protected]> > Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) >
One problem I will mention but in most cases wouldn't matter. Most dial-up ISPs have connect time limits. AT&T for example is 12 hours, my current ISP is 10 but some are as little as 4 hours. When that limit is reached, it disconnects. This happens even if there is data flowing. If, this is a big if here, a person has one of these and cannot resume the download, this could become a issue even if they have a long connect time like AT&T. I use Kget to download huge files or CDs since it has a resume feature. However, are the tools on the CD, wget I guess, resumable? I do think this is a good idea even if it is a separate CD to download. Also something to remember when making the stage tarballs I guess. Dale :-) :-)
