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From: Sami Al-Sayed <supersambo@onetel.net.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection?
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 10:51:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16hTbS-00051L-00.2002-03-03-10-52-31@mail18.svr.pol.co.uk> (raw)

Hello,

Just a quick query about Gentoo/Portage:

Is it possible to use Portage with a standard (and pretty slow) PPP dial-up 
modem connection (ie. 56K)? Does Portage support resume of broken downloads? 

I have a free dial-up internet connection which (annoyingly) disconnects 
itself after every 2 hours of being connected, and would like to give Gentoo 
a try, as I have so far not been completely satisfied with the various binary 
distributions I've tried and their package management systems. I am also a 
self-confessed optimisation fanatic :-)

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Sami Knudsen Al-Sayed


             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-03 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-03 10:51 Sami Al-Sayed [this message]
2002-03-03 18:35 ` [gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection? George Shapovalov
2002-03-03 20:53 ` ian.c.smith
2002-03-03 23:51 ` Dan Armak

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