From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 14 16:22:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B5737B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4ENMnC18920 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:22:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA17587 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 40882 invoked by uid 1001); 14 May 2001 23:22:47 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 01:22:47 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Mark Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read command timeout Message-ID: <20010515012247.A40683@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Hughes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <008901c0dc47$3ff84d80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <076e01c0dc66$6dc006d0$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010514135419.A27981@student.uu.se> <000b01c0dcc9$bc9459b0$0200a8c0@mark2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000b01c0dcc9$bc9459b0$0200a8c0@mark2>; from mark@dvdnews.co.uk on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:01:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:01:44PM +0100, Mark Hughes wrote: > > > 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? > Oh, you meant downloading the CD image. Yes, that would take a bit longer. As to how big a barebone installation is , well that depends on just how barebone you want it :-) Also are you interested in how much it is to download or how much hdd-space is required? You can easily fit a fairly complete FreeBSD installation in 150 MB. This includes most things except the sources and X-windows plus a few ports. If you don't care about things like documentation or man-pages or games you could probably fit it into 100 MB. Download size would probably be a bit below half of that since the downloaded files are compressed. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message