Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jun 5 09:24:42 UTC 2007
Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Yes, it is....
>>
>> If yum fails during the download phase and you run it again it will
>> skip the
>> packages it has previously downloaded.
>
> You presume each package can come down in one piece. I'm not, since
> I know better. Downloading at 28Kbps means that even 1MB takes 5
> minutes. KDE libs is 15Meg, for example.
Wow, your dial-up is that unstable that it can't download 15Meg in one
sitting? You must end up doing a lot of "wget -c".
BTW, about 12 years ago the maximum speed I got on dialup to my office was
9.6kbps and I was living in an old house with really bad wiring so I doubt I
was getting that much. Yet, my connection rarely dropped. So, if the
infrastructure you are saddled with is worse than that you have my sincerest
pity.
>>> Second, one may not have a large piece of disc to devote just to
>>> downloading a huge ISO image, while one may be able to do 700MB pieces
>>> one by one.
>>>
>>> Others may occur to you.
>>
>>
>> I suppose one could sit around all day throwing up roadblocks to
>> anything.
>
> I suppose one could shrug off problems which affect
> other people all day long as well.
I still say Wolfgang was right. It is much easier to whine about ones state
of affairs than to do something about it.
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