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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 13:01:44 +0100
From:      "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>
To:        "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Salvo Bartolotta" <bartequi@inwind.it>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Read command timeout
Message-ID:  <000301c0dc71$8270f570$2845883e@mark2>
References:  <008901c0dc47$3ff84d80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <076e01c0dc66$6dc006d0$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010514135419.A27981@student.uu.se>

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> > I'd be happy to, unfortunately over a 56k modem link it would take me two
> > straight days to download it - which in and of itself isn't too bad,
> > however not using the modem for those two days while it's downloading
> > is...
>
> Two days? Although a modem is not exactky a speed demon it is not *that*
> slow. When I originally installed 3.1 over a 33.6k modem link it was more
> like 15 hours total. With a 56k modem and if you do a barebones installation
> I would be surprised if it took you more than about 10 hours. A bit of time
> granted, but quite a bit less than two days.

sorry, I meant the time to download the CD image, I don't want to spend ten hours doing a
net install only for it to fail (or not, but either way...) and me not have a copy of the
downloaded stuff. Especially when my net connection cuts off every two hours (Freeserve
UK), I'm not even convinced it will work - would the installer resume the transfer if it
gets cut off half way through install?

How big is a bare bones installation, out of interest?

Regards,
Mark



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