-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fred Sloniker wrote: | I hope I haven't asked this question already; I've been thinking about it for | a while, but haven't (I think) gotten around to it. | | Is it possible to do an FTP install of SuSE over modem? I'm thinking ahead to | 8.2, of course, but I presume the method wouldn't change from 8.1. I tried | to do this with 8.1, in fact (before buying a copy), but as far as I could | determine, the boot disks don't have support for establishing an FTP | connection via modem. | | Yeah, I know it'd be slow as heck, but I don't have the cash to buy a copy of | 8.2, I don't care about any of the buy-only programs (heck, I don't even know | what they are), and I don't have any helpful broadband friends to burn a copy | of the FTP tree for me, so... is it possible at all, or am I just SOL? | | Sure it's possible. But expect to see 8.3 released before you're done downloading it. oh, and i'm not sure if the ftp version will stay the same, or if it's constantly updated. If I was going to do it, with modem, I'd use GFTP *my prefrence, use your own choice), I knwo I can tell it to grab the entire directory tree, then stop if i need to, and skip over the files I already have. what is it, 12 CD's? thats 8.6 million kilo bytes. assuming you'd always have 56 kbPS download, it would take you almost 43 hours. i've never seen a download speed on my 56 higher than 4 kilos per second, which translates out as almost 25 days (597.3 hours) figure out a way to save $2 a day for a month (cut back on soda, movies, hookers :-) , etc) for a month, and you'll have enough for the upgrade version. Joe - -- SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686 ~ 5:37pm up 6 days, 9:17, 5 users, load average: 0.47, 0.42, 0.34 Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach nqs@cognisurf.com | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html GPG key can be found at: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ | Geek Code: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/geek_code.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+sG9fojW9aOH101IRAktGAKDGWlqSNA5KFDD/m+f6z9SXRHP18wCdEV5k JkuZL+DjqRlLTdWqRqhugUE= =Zk0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----