Hello to everyone

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Fri Aug 24 18:04:46 EDT 2001


Is that possible with slackware too?
Greg


On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:34:05PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi if you can't get CDs, you could just download 12 floppy images
> and let the system install over the net.  This is how I installed 
> Debian on my desktop system.  At that time, I only had a 28K connection,
> so the install took 8 hours.  The nice thing about this is when the
> modem lost connection, the system would re-connect and keep trying.
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:06:44PM -0400, Amanda Lee wrote:
> > yes but you are assujing we already have linux ha!   -  Amanda
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > 
> > > If you use ftp under Linux, simply do reget instead of get and the filename.
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:09:06PM -0400, Amanda Lee wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yeah I know, I was working out the math to get the cat sitter to startup a
> > > > new download between her visits ha!
> > > > Wow!  I had figured on about 2 and a half days per CD so hey now! 35 hours
> > > > per image! ain't all bad!  The only down side to this is if you loose the
> > > > modem connection and have to start all overagain.  I sure did like the
> > > > resume feature in zmodem back in the dos days.
> > > >
> > > > I'm happy to say that a kind person has been gracious enough to burn some
> > > > CDs.  Once I have these, in the future, will be glad to pass on the favor
> > > > to others but don't everybody line-up just yet!
> > > >
> > > > Amanda
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Actually I've downloaded plenty of cd images over my modem. Its not pretty
> > > > > but if you let it go you can get one in about 35 hours or so.
> > > > > If you don't watn ot take that way downloading while you sleep is antoehr
> > > > > good option or download while your at work or a bit of both.
> > > > > Some people say I'm crazy for doing this but oh well.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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