Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

[bob parker <bob_parker@ozonline.com.au>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:31, Beretta wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:00:19 +0100, Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >But even if we are looking at a full 13 x 700 MB = 9100 MB at a
> >relatively slow 5 minutes per megabyte it would take you less than a
> >week to download the entire distribution.
>
> <snip>
>
> What kinda math is that? <grin>
>
> 5 mins per meg * 9100 MB =  45,500 minutes
>
> 45,500 minutes / 60 min per hour = 758 hours
>
> 758 hours / 24 hours in a day = 31 days.
>
> That's a solid month.
>
> Try again.......

Yeah and who can tie up their phone line 24 hours. I did d/l a full iso 
(Knoppix) on my dialup at 8/24 through the night only. It took a week.
And then it was out a bit or 3 and failed the md5sum check, repaired by rsync 
fortunately.

Any way for me on my dialup, the d/l is 3 months.

Bob Parker