Simon:
The idea (and reason) is I downloaded the RedHat 7.2 ISO's down an ISDN line and it took 3 days (including 2 disconnects that I didn't pick up on)...
Yes, getting some shared ISOs is probably useful, although I wish more distributions would follow Debian's lead of starting PPP network installations from nothing more than a few floppies and some hard disk files. They're taking it even further in the next version and letting you download the hard disk files after the installation has started, I believe. Why on earth would anyone want to download 600Mb and only use around 200Mb of it?
So, the answer's simple: use Debian! ;-)
On Monday 07 Jan 2002 4:24 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
Simon:
The idea (and reason) is I downloaded the RedHat 7.2 ISO's down an ISDN line and it took 3 days (including 2 disconnects that I didn't pick up on)...
Yes, getting some shared ISOs is probably useful, although I wish more distributions would follow Debian's lead of starting PPP network installations from nothing more than a few floppies and some hard disk files. They're taking it even further in the next version and letting you download the hard disk files after the installation has started, I believe. Why on earth would anyone want to download 600Mb and only use around 200Mb of it?
So, the answer's simple: use Debian! ;-)
I agree with your comments, but..... Sounds lame, but I'd rather have the full distro (maybe I'm odd) that way I can get all the extra goodies, bits and pieces that come along.. Fair enough most of them will never see the light of day... But I just gotta have em.... Anyway I've got to stick with RedHat, company policy etc...
P.S. Does anyone know how to get the spell checker working with KMail ?
Simon
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