Hi Guys - interesting thread
What might be worth considering is findin something that will
'background'
download files and allow restarts from whatever you've already
downloaded.
Do you mean that we can't restart if the PPP link drops? Not really usable for most people on dialup in this country then, where periodic kicks and noisy lines are the norm.
GNU/GnomeFTP is a goodie for restarts mid file, if there was a way to script it and point it at your fave mirror you could certainly automate and restart. The idea I think would be to get the boot disks and core system, then automate the download/install of the user-selected packages beyond that using some FTP Goodie. It is possible to manually resume FTP downloads from n-bytes within a file, so there is another option. A good local mirror should speed things up a bit. Doable. Certainly think so. Any takers? (I'm gonna have a poke around with this tonight) Cheers Earl
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