pkg_add on dialup: resume?

2010-08-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello, I'm transitioning to FreeBSD on my box for several reasons. However, I'm on dialup. pkg_add doesn't seem to be able to resume since I can't use the phone line (or the computer) long enough to install packages all in one go. Is there a solution to this? Second, update-freebsd (binary

Re: pkg_add on dialup: resume?

2010-08-07 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/7/2010 6:03 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: However, I'm on dialup. pkg_add doesn't seem to be able to resume since I can't use the phone line (or the computer) long enough to install packages all in one go. Is there a solution to this? There might be a more elegant solution but this