Yes, the clinic is this Sunday, but FreeGeek's pipe isn't all that big. A
typical home cable or DSL connection will bring the file to you in a few
hours. Wget even supports resuming interrupted transfers.

-wes

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

>   Is this coming Sunday clinic day? If so, I'd like to bring a blank,
> writable cd-rw disk and use the high-speed pipe to download xubuntu-9.04.
>
>   The upgrade did not go well; it takes about 5 minutes for the laptop to
> boot while with earlier versions it was about 40 seconds. Also, the pcmcia
> wireless drivers aren't loaded when the machine is rebooted. I'm hoping
> that
> a clean install (I'll copy her /home/ directory to a USB flash drive) will
> fix these two problems.
>
> Rich
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