On Sat, 08 May 2004 14:30, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 07 May 2004 10:21 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > cr writes: > > > Yes, sitting behind a 56k modem (or a 28k which is what I'm stuck with > > > when line noise sets in!), a major upgrade of several packages is > > > really only practical off CD's. > > > > I don't find that to be the case. > > Me neither. When I dist-upgraded to Sarge from Woody, it was rather > painful. I think it took 36 hours or so to get everything. After that, I > used an "update early, update often" philosophy. I usually only had to get > a thing or two, but it did get ugly a few times when there was a glibc > update or a new version of X. > > I tried to stay away from packages that kept changing pointlessly. > Download the kernel source six times because people kept changing things > related to extremely obscure options that didn't affect me anyway, for > example. > > I won't say it was a wonderful experience, but I got by that way for a year > or two. Grabbing new stuff by modem just takes patience. It helps if you > don't pay for your connectivity by the hour too.
Ah. I do (or rather, I have a fixed number of hours prer month on dial-up). Rather more significantly, I only have one telephone line - so when my computer's on line, phone ain't working. *And* I can never guarantee the line won't drop for some reason, so leaving the thing running overnight isn't really a solution. And it isn't as if I'm the _only_ person living in this house..... I can contemplate a 5MB download, *very* occasionally, but that's my limit. 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. Obviously, this depends on individual circumstances. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
