[gentoo-dev] Silly question

[gentoo-dev] Silly question

[Charles Jenkins]

I'm interested in getting Gentoo Linux, but I have a 56k dialup
connection. Do I understand correctly that the install CD will want
to download stuff, if, for example, I ask for KDE 3?

I'm trying to determine if Gentoo is practical for a slow-speed
dialup user.

-- Charles Jenkins (MailTo:cjenkins@tec-usa.com)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Silly question

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 13 June 2002 18:03, Charles Jenkins wrote:
> I'm interested in getting Gentoo Linux, but I have a 56k dialup
> connection. Do I understand correctly that the install CD will want
> to download stuff, if, for example, I ask for KDE 3?
>
> I'm trying to determine if Gentoo is practical for a slow-speed
> dialup user.
>

Yes, depending on your install (and whether or not you use the stage3) you 
will need to download data from 200 MB to over a gigabyte. It is possible to 
do this downloading at another site and transfer the sources by 
cd-(re)writeable. Installing by modem is possible but not advisable 
(especially if you need to pay per minute/second).

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] Silly question

[Ian Smith]

Charles Jenkins wrote:
> I'm interested in getting Gentoo Linux, but I have a 56k dialup 
> connection. Do I understand correctly that the install CD will want 
> to download stuff, if, for example, I ask for KDE 3?
> 
> I'm trying to determine if Gentoo is practical for a slow-speed 
> dialup user.

Yes, definitely, once you get past the initial downloads.  Once you are 
up and running, a source distribution requires much less downloading 
than a binary one to keep it up to date.

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