Craig McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:29:11AM -0300, Federico Silva wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > has anyone done a dist-upgrade thru a 33.6 kbps modem line ?.
> > How long does it take, what are your favorite mirrors ?
>
> Well, let's say a healthy installation has 700MB worth of packages
> installed (that's around 1.5GB uncompressed, which is a bit on
> the excessive side, but not unreasonable). Most packages will be
> replaced during a dist-upgrade, and thinking realistically and
> considering that you'll be getting at most 10MB/hour on that
> connection
> of yours... yikes.
I have always upgraded using a dial-up modem link even when I also had a
33.6K modem. OK, it does take a few hours - but at usual local call
rates it really does not amount to a great deal of money. For me it was
still less than the cost of buying and shipping a CD-ROM. Now in the UK
we have unmetred (ie. basically free) access to the Internet so it is
even better! I can double up my ISDN connection to 128K and still pay
nothing for the download.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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