From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 9 18:58:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA05146 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (seoul-194.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA05132 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:58:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA01047; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:58:46 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:58:45 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isa.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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