tom:
RH will allow this - simply make the install disks, boot and load the network card and do an nfs install [...]
Can you really bring up the PPP link easily from the install system now? That's a big step forwards then.
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. -- MJR
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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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.
as is reget in teh ftp suite, but personally wget is your friend... I use it with dial-on-demand and it works a charm... I wget large files ( > 20meg) over a 28.8K overnight. I know that the connection drops every two hours (due to NTL), and I have not experienced any corruption yet (although I shouldn't ever see a corrupt file as TCP does the error correction)... anyway, a good local mirror (depends how 'local' you want) is ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors it's pretty fast... hth Sz
Re ftp restart I have RealDownload under w$ (Its my job honest!) and this can restart at any point the download has got to. It takes me about two weeks to get a whole 620Meg ISO image just by re-starting the download everytime I connect to browse/collect e-mail etc for about an hour a day on ISDN The re-start info is a part of ftp/http but a) the server must support it and b) you've got to have a client that can utilise it. I don't know of a client for Linux but then I've never looked.. Anybody know of one? Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
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