From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 1 19:27:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13434 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:27:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13421 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from localhost.net (dialup620.serv.net [207.207.65.20]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15376; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 19:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 19:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Installing via FTP Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Kronos80@aol.com Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sure - I downloaded FreeBSD 2.2.6 (the entire release, minus some of the packages, which aren't part of the main release anyway) over a 28.8 modem, most of the time connected at 24,000. It took about a day or a day and a half to get all the required files (modern OS's do multitask, so what's wrong with downloading in the background, and leaving your computer downloading when you're sleeping?) It was just a matter of patience and waiting, and cheaper than buying the CD-ROM. Once the main release was up and running, I could add any packages/other software via modem as well (and unlike a CD-ROM, the latest releases are available online via the web page and FTP (CDROM software gets stale fast)). So, if you have the patience, installing over FTP, or at least *downloading* and installing from a DOS partition is a viable alternative at modem/ISDN speeds, unless you have no patience and *have to have it now* (or if you pay by the hour for your Internet connection - most people I know pay flat rates, including AOL users). On 29-Jun-98 Rainer M Duffner wrote: > Also, I'd question if it is really convenient to install over AOL, even > is it work. It's great if you have a 2MBit line and the mirror is > somewhere on the same WAN, but over modem/ISDN ? ? ? > > (Somebody proof me wrong). > > cheers, > Rainer ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 01-Jul-98 Time: 19:17:25 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message