I have not been able to find anything that says if wget is available on the GNU CD for Windows, or not. In any case I think it would be easier to buy something like Red Hat. Even split over several sessions, 60 hours is a long time to tie up a phone line.
-----Original Message----- From: Per Jessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:48 AM To: Fargusson.Alan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gnome On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:27:53 -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote: >One of the results of the way Linux is developed is that old hardware tends >to work better than new hardware. Try knoppix on a new notebook and it is >less likely to work. I'll try that - we have a fairly new compaq. Although my impression has been that (most) manufacturers are very good at working with eg. the kernel-developers. I've just tried a Fujitsu-Siemens ready-made Intel system - no probs whatsoever. Granted, this is probably a 100% standard system (and certainly not a laptop), so ... >At some point I will probably put a second drive in my Dell and try Linux again. >I probably will not try to download a version though. I don't have a CD writer >at work, and I don't have broadband at home. I estimate it would take about >60 hours to download one CD worth of data at home, and I doubt that my dialup >would stay connected that long. You could try using 'wget -r' - even with interruptions, that tends to work fine. That's what I used before we got ADSL a couple of months ago. Uh, wait - maybe try a download manager for MSIE or Netscape ? I don't know if you wget exists for Windows or Mac. The c't CDROM is 688M, but also has openoffice, mozilla and probably lots of other stuff included. /Per regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.
