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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:58:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: isa.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971209185757.232B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971209123459.8345A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> > "Just download the sources" is easier said than done with a v34 modem.
> 
> I have exactly such a modem, plus very noisy telephone line. What I did,
> though, was to install the sources from 2.2.1 CD-ROM and then run cvsup...
> It took me about an hour to catch up with -current, and it should take
> much less to catch up with -stable.
> 
> So, I know this can be done quite easily :-)

It's not so bad, cvsup will easily resume everything if you for some
reason get interrupted. Hell you could (if you really wanted) do about 3
minutes a day, and it'd still work.

- alex




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