From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 13 00:18:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29211 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA29206 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zI6QD-0005x4-00; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:18:09 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:18:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Daniel Hawton cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP In-Reply-To: <35FB5F6E.3172@cooltime.simplenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Daniel Hawton wrote: > I am about to get a cable modem (10mega bits per second) how long would > it take to download everything I need to install FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP? I > have the boot disk made. If your cable modem is really 10 mbs, it should take about 2 minutes for a base install. About 3 minutes if you get X and some other goodies. Howerver, in the real world, it will take about 5 times longer than that (10 to 15 minutes) Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message