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* Re: [gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.
  @ 2002-04-29 19:47 99% ` eric
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From: eric @ 2002-04-29 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw
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i use a small script to do a emerge -f --update world at night and it brings 
the download wait to 0. ppp and gentoo get along just as nicely as any other 
distro.
:)

eric-



On Friday 26 April 2002 10:24 pm, James Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, William McArthur wrote:
> > Gentoo isn't modem friendly. On my newest gentoo workstation which is
> > about a week old I've already downloaded over 500megs of source
> > packages. While it is possible to download this over a modem it won't be
> > fun.
>
> You just lack the patience to put up with the dial-up. I've been running
> Gentoo since well before the 1.0 stage and have been keeping it up to
> date, all on a 56k dial-up, including 3 new versions of XFree. For those
> of us that don't need an instant gratification fix it works quite well.
> And guess what: I've probablly pulled down 500MB this week also.
>
> That being said I find it baffling why a pppd setup is NOT on the install
> medium. The bandwidth hogs like yourself would hardly notice; what's
> another meg on the download to you?! and it would allow the people who
> want to, to do an install that way.
>
> James Gibson
>
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