Date: 13 Feb 2000 04:51:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." <rarnold@colemantx.com>, <Fravlahua@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how many? Message-ID: <86vh3tx1a9.fsf@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Walter Brameld's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:02:45 -0500" References: <3b.f43b34.25d5fadd@aol.com> <001d01bf74f3$18f5cc60$997b403f@ronaldjr> <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <00021209032502.03943@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain>
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Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> writes: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > I don't have a much better modem than you. Mine's also a 28.8 Kbit/s > > modem, but the installation of the basic "bin" package, the "doc" and > > "ports", along with the statically linked binaries of "cvsup" took a > > little less than 4 hours. > > > > After that I had a really minimal install, but it was a FreeBSD system > > running there. Another night's run to CVSup all the sources and the > > ports, and I had an updated kernel and "world". > > > > It certainly sounds better than having to download the entire thing, > > which will probably need a lot more days than just 5. > > I did an X-user install via ftp at 28.8. Took around 7 hours. Ah well, I only mentioned "bin", "doc" and "ports", since I had the XFree86-3.3.5 sources and various distfiles from my (now late) 3.4-installation lying around on a CD, and only downloaded the diffs of XFree86-3.3.6 from a near by FTP mirror. But I can see your point :> Well, on the "bare metal", a couple of all-nighters is enough where I live to have a newly installed BSD system through a 28.8 dialup link. I suppose the fact that the ports can be installed "later", this makes them qualify for the second night's dialing. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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