Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/31/15:31:31
Too big? <grin>
I downloaded the whole RedHat 4.0 with the Non-free and all contibutions,
and the coomplete Debian v3 with a 28.8 modem and a lousy connection. I was
licky to get 24k connect speed. But of course I was not using stupid WINDOZE
crap to down load it. I used LYNX under Linux and would use a command to dl
tree structres and resume. I did not care if there were timeout probelms and
other such things. I would just turn on the computer at night before I went
to sleep and coonect to the site and let it rip. If I missed part of a file
I would automaticcaly get the rest of it the next time. Then after I get
everything I connect one more time and re-download it all and if nothing is
assed to any files I know it is complete with no errors because it will
check the files automatically.. All total I donloaded well over 600MB in
about a week.<g>
But I see your point. I probably will not do that again as you can buy the
Linux CDs for about $3.00 each and if I buy a bundle the price per CD is
even lower.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: <fernande AT internet1 DOT net>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: A little history
> Pat,
>
> I have downloaded DRDOS several times actually. I made sure I wanted
> it, before I bought it. I like having the cd-rom to install from, for
> one thing.
>
> Open linux would be just way to big for me to download. I really bad
> phone lines in this apartment that limit my connection speed to about
> 24000bps. I knew I would need some documentation for it too. The cds
> are nice too!
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