In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, 08 May 2004 15:06:26 +1200, cr wrote:
> Rather more significantly, I only have one telephone line - so when my > computer's on line, phone ain't working. Same here. The Potato (stable) to Woody (testing) dist-upgrade took me around 40 hours. I, too, as another poster noted, try to keep reasonably up to date since. I find upgrades now take much less time, with the occasional 6-hour overnight blast. > *And* I can never guarantee the > line won't drop for some reason, so leaving the thing running overnight isn't > really a solution. In my experience, this isn't important. Packages already downloaded are waiting in the cache and partial downloads are resumed at the point of failure. > So, for me, spending a few bucks to get the CD's posted to me is much less > hassle and takes much less of my time. For us 56k types, CD-ROMs are a wonderful thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
