On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:46:49PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:00 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:57:12PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in > >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > > > Sure, but if you have the debs on local media, its a lot faster; > > especially if you're on dial-up. > > Well, the OP does say "i've downloaded four debian iso installers from > debian http website". I don't imagine the OP did that over dial-up; but I > could be wrong assuming that. In any event I forgot about being able to > add the media to apt. 8D
DVDs would take a while on dialup, I found it took me 3 days to get a CD when I was on 28.8. Now that I'm on 56K, whoo-hoo! To be pedantic, we're also assuming that he has the same bandwidth available to the installed machine as to the machine that downloaded the iso's. Perhaps he did it at a friends house or at work. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
