Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:19:30 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Johnny Hughes wrote:
You can do a netinstall via the LiveCD too. This is identical to doing the install via the netinstall CD.
Which again means lots of new downloads for him while installing over the 'net. I feel for the guy, having been on slow dialup with lots of noise on the long rural phone lines for years...
Actually he is in *worse* shape: he is on satelite internet. With the Fair Use Limit, the first 450-500 meg will download quickly enough, then things will be *worse* than dial-up. He would have to halt the install and wait 24 hours and then resume it for the next 450-500 meg... Unless he does a super minimual install and then does a series of 'yum install ..', each under 500 meg each day until done. Could take all of a week that way, or about how long it would take for CheapBytes to mail out a CentOS 5.3 DVD or CD set...
Actually I only need a minimal install in that computer since I plan on using it as a file server.
As for the "fair use policy" the examples you cite apply to Hughes I believe but Wildblue is better in that respect. I could use the entire 17 gig's in one day if I wanted. There would be no problem with that but it would take me 30 days to recover bandwidth. So for someone doing Linux o/s downloads Wildblue is better. A good wired connection would be better yet and we would take that in a heart beat but it's not happening here in the sticks!
I have two other computers running F-10 installed from the live-cd. It does take some additional downloads to make them do what I want but then I'm only taking what I want which helps to keep it to a minimum. I think I still come out ahead that way.
Thanks for your comments.
Bob