[Nottingham] Newbie intro

[Martin]

David Aldred wrote:
[...]
> What's actually even more offputting, looking at some of the sites, is 
> that they don't specify the filesize to be downloaded.  So it could be 
> five minutes, or five hours!
> 
> Some (all? I don't know!) Linux distributions appear to come with an 
> 'update via internet' system: sounds a nice idea unless you run into a 
> big file!  Can such things be configured to get their updates from CD 
> instead,

Yes, or from anywhere else you specify.

> or to abort if they find a download over a certain size?

Don't know on that one. However, for Mandrake's urpmi, you get the file 
sizes specified so that you know in advance how much is going to get 
installed.

I've been using Bittorrent for various iso downloads and it works very 
well. It should tolerate the 2 hour time slots to do a resume, although 
I would expect it to be far too tedious to try a 2GB download!


Good luck,
Martin

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