* Re: [gentoo-dev] installing using ppp connection.
@ 2002-04-27 5:24 99% ` James Gibson
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From: James Gibson @ 2002-04-27 5:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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