I'm willing to share a Debian testing CD or net minimal CD. I have both around here somewhere. I've installed Debian over a dial-up without too much problem. I used to use a fast work connection to download ISOs but then figured out that Debian moves too fast to burn onto CDs. Especially under the unstable branch. My home PC was installed over a dial-up and it took two 10 hour nights to download the GUI. Luckily, it wasn't my first Debian install. Currently, I have a cron job to apt-rsync. Which is a batch script that combines apt and rsync http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/aptrsync.html This greatly speeds up the package index download. Apparently the rest of Debian is compressed so that rsync doesn't improve performance. Then the cron job will download the updates. I don't always have my computer on overnight and every 2 weeks it may take me more than 10 hours to download the updates. MSN cuts me off after 10 hours :) Under Windows I never hit the maximum. Jeff Rasmussen On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:32:56 -0500, Keith Bachman <kcbnac at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm for sure interested in the latest Debian. I was going to get > started tonight, but as Garrett knows, the connection at Brown was > crappy, and I could only get the netinstall iso at about 10KB/second. > That's on our T1. how crappy. They should mirror that file. So > tommorow I'll have it, and tommorow night I shall begin the install. > First, get a basic system up, then GUI, and then start doing packages > as I have time/bandwidth. Hopefully get onto a highspeed system > before too long....probably next quarter, if need be, when we move on > to our final project *grins* > > So yeah, I'll probably just do it at school tommorow via my laptop or > somethin...crossover and then through the wireless, get the basics up. > :) (Yes, I'll finish the lab as well Garrett.) > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:17:51 -0500 (CDT), Garrett Krueger > > > <gkrueger at cleosci.com> wrote: > > The problem is: when you had a 28.8 modem in its day, it WAS fast! Now > > however... ;) > > > > > Debian over the net is a no go over dial-up?!? > > > > > > *gets out cane, hunches back* > > > > > > When I was your age, I installed Debian over a 28.8 modem. Kids these > > > days!!! > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list