From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 5:30: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D6837B422 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 05:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from modem-40.einsteinium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.69.40] helo=mark2) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14zHTf-00068k-00; Mon, 14 May 2001 13:29:33 +0100 Message-ID: <000301c0dc71$8270f570$2845883e@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Erik Trulsson" Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Salvo Bartolotta" , References: <008901c0dc47$3ff84d80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <076e01c0dc66$6dc006d0$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010514135419.A27981@student.uu.se> Subject: Re: Read command timeout Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:01:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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