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: <000b01c0dcc9$bc9459b0$0200a8c0@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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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