On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:59, Christophe Courtois wrote: > > You seem to miss the point, or so I understand it. I want to > > download the distribution on a DIFFERENT computer, burn a > > If you have only a 56k modem, you should better buy the CDs. I don't > know where you live, but for example Ikarios.com sells them for almost > nothing (10€) from France. > I must say that I agree with Christophe completely. I downloaded the first Linux distro I ever installed over a 56k connection (It was Mandrake 1.0 back in about 1997). The FTP session took roughly 36 hours. Woody will take considerably longer, and I can only say that if you MUST download to install then you should DL the minimal installation floppy images and use apt-get to add ONLY the packages you need. When I installed woody, I ordered the then unofficial CD set from the computerhelperguy (see the Debian CD sources webpage). The 5 CD set (this was Jan of 2001) cost me US$20 and arrived about 4 days later. I seriously doubt that I could have downloaded 5 isos in 4 days over my then-56k connection. The current official CD images set is 7 isos x roughly 650 MB/each = roughly 4.5 GB. I don't regard that as a practical download over a dialup. Think about it. Best regards, ninewands
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