From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 10:56:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A53637B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25F743E77 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9SIujS2007109 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:56:45 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12570 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:56:44 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 2331 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Oct 2002 18:56:43 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:56:43 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Mark Haney Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Typical times installing from ports via 56k modem? Message-ID: <20021028185643.GA2278@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Haney , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3dbd62cd.30c8.0@email.franklin.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3dbd62cd.30c8.0@email.franklin.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:16:13AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to FreeBSD, choosing it about two months ago as my first venture into > the open-source OS world. I installed 4.6.0 from CD, and have updated to 4.7 > RELEASE via CVSUP. I also updated my ports collection from CVSUP, but haven't > upgraded any of my installed ports yet. > > It took about 1.5 hrs for the CVSUP from 4.6.0 to 4.7, and another 2 hours for > the build (on a P3-500 with 128MB RAM). > > My question is... Is it realistic to upgrade via ports with a 56K modem? I tried > installing a few small things via ports, and it worked well, but I'm wondering > how long it will take to download and build things like the XFree86, or GNOME. > Do these things take days, or might I be able to accomplish it overnight? It is quite realistic. A back-of-the-envelope calculation indicates that downloading the distfile for XFree86-4 over a 56K modem should take something like 3 hours. Buildtime for you is probably somewhat less than that. I believe GNOME is of similar size. So you will most likely be able to do it overnight. > > Thanks in advance for answers to these questions, or any other tips on keeping > FreeBSD up to date via ports and 56k modem. (Please copy me in replies, as I'm > not subscribed to the list.) > -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message