From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 16: 1:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dv-db.com (dv-db.com [207.159.141.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14A937B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:01:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from mark2 (usr1984-bh2.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.239.216]) by dv-db.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA04198; Tue, 15 May 2001 00:01:00 +0100 (GMT/BST) Message-ID: <000b01c0dcc9$bc9459b0$0200a8c0@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