On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:55:41PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
> 300M ? You are not talking about a PDA are you ? ;-)
mjb@toolbox:~> sudo apt-get --reinstall install $(dpkg --get-selections |
grep -v 'deinstall$' | awk '{print $1}')
...
133 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 463 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 294MB/379MB of archives. After unpacking 24.3MB will be used.
ok, so it's 379 on my laptop. as you can see, I havent upgraded in a while,
so there's a large amount there that is 'obsolete'
I'll bring it into work, with that much to do.
Desktop:
5 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 868 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 22.5MB/476MB of archives. After unpacking 292kB will be used.
Hmm.. ok, a few more than I thought. still, under 500M.
I imagine that you're forgetting that all of the software you have
installed, is not the size you need to download. packages *are* compressed,
you know... for good reason, as you can see.
> So, 180 MB over a modem .... that is at least 9h. OK, do you leave it overnight
> .. or have a second POT line at ~350$/year ? And what happens if the carrier
> gets dropped ?
Ok, so I have DSL now, but when I had a modem, yes, I'd just leave it going.
> I don't say is impossible just IMHO very impractical.
>
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of CD's.
> (as they say)
I call CD's impractical, but that's my opinion.
Mike.
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Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<Culus> dhd: R you part of the secret debian overstructure?
<dhd> no. there is no secret debian overstructure.
<CosmicRay> although, now that somebody brought it up, let's start one
:-)
<Knghtbrd> CosmicRay - why not, sounds like a fun way to spend the
afternoon =3DD
